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[00:00:00] jets fly over here, you communicate. So we're quite
[00:00:03] lucky that where we're based, being up here in sort of
[00:00:07] North Estonia, as we're quite near Amari Air Force Base where the Baltic Air
[00:00:10] Police um base. So we have these quite regular
[00:00:14] opportunities where they're quite keen to practice their close air support
[00:00:17] training uh with us, and so uh, we'll take any opportunity we
[00:00:21] can get to get any close air support training with them. Um, so at the moment we're working with the
[00:00:24] Portuguese F-16s. Um, I think they're a
[00:00:28] three-month rotation out here.
[00:00:40] In the small town of Tapa, in the Tapa military campus, which is
[00:00:43] by no means small, life is in full swing.
[00:00:47] Most of our conscripts receive training here, but
[00:00:50] not only. In 2014, when
[00:00:54] Russia first attacked Ukraine, it was decided at the Warsaw
[00:00:57] summit that NATO's eastern flank needed to be strengthened. So,
[00:01:01] NATO units were sent to the Baltic states and Poland, and they
[00:01:04] constantly rotate. The leading nation of the Allied
[00:01:08] battle group stationed in Estonia is Great Britain, which, however,
[00:01:11] works closely with the French. They are neighbors both
[00:01:14] at home and here in the Tapa
[00:01:16] military campus.
[00:01:19] As the leading nation, Great Britain's biggest challenge is to bring
[00:01:23] all parties into cooperation
[00:01:25] in the best possible way.
[00:01:31] Estonians and French, especially in the sense of what kit have they got
[00:01:34] and how how do we best use that with what the UK have. So it's
[00:01:38] a more, so you get better effect on the
[00:01:41] battlefield. Ian, the head of communications for the British, is daily
[00:01:44] involved in just such integration,
[00:01:47] working with anyone new, it's just adapting to their
[00:01:51] customs, how do they do it, because although they have a
[00:01:55] different approach that's not a bad thing, because actually it's quite refreshing hearing
[00:01:58] you how do they... a problem, how do they prepare
[00:02:02] uh for an exercise and actually learning off each other, so the more
[00:02:05] exercises that does
[00:02:08] together at that level is even better because you can just
[00:02:10] cross learn from each
[00:02:12] other. From the
[00:02:16] children's side, the liaison officer Jeremy ensures that cooperation
[00:02:19] with the English and Estonians
[00:02:21] goes smoothly.
[00:02:24] very similar to the British organization, since in fact,
[00:02:27] it is standardized by NATO. So
[00:02:30] we have the same equivalent
[00:02:33] positions, whether on the French or British side, and therefore
[00:02:36] this work is facilitated because everyone has their counterpart on the
[00:02:40] British side to prepare activities
[00:02:44] and we work in the same spirit with the same procedures.
[00:02:47] We have acquired the British battle group
[00:02:51] procedures, so it's very easy to talk about the same
[00:02:55] thing and jointly prepare activities.
[00:02:58] Don't think that while the commanders are planning the
[00:03:02] next exercise from the staff, the soldiers
[00:03:04] are idle.
[00:03:13] A soldier's life is endless training, and today we're going to try to
[00:03:17] complete an obstacle course here with the French guys.
[00:03:50] Audi.
[00:04:10] It's not that easy.
[00:04:26] Wait, wait, wait, everything is thrown over.
[00:04:44] Oh my
[00:04:44] God,
[00:04:49] wow, it's very hard. Thank
[00:04:53] you.
[00:05:00] Finish.
[00:05:02] Okay.
[00:05:06] That was pretty cool, to be honest. The beginning seemed very
[00:05:09] easy, but the most important thing is
[00:05:13] that you don't leave your comrades behind. I was impressed that
[00:05:17] they were pushed from behind, thrown over, everyone comes
[00:05:20] along.
[00:05:29] How difficult has it actually been to
[00:05:32] integrate allies, different cultures,
[00:05:35] languages, techniques, I don't know,
[00:05:38] perhaps also understandings or the understanding
[00:05:41] of warfare. approximately like traffic
[00:05:44] signs. When the Allied battle group came to Estonia in
[00:05:47] 2017, we were used to conducting exercises and
[00:05:51] going on missions in an international context. Integration has usually been
[00:05:54] a problem from a technical point of view. A very simple thing, for example,
[00:05:58] radio stations do not communicate directly with each other; you have to invent some intermediate device that connects
[00:06:01] the radio stations. So that's a technical problem. On a
[00:06:05] human level, we actually have similar
[00:06:08] preparation. I'll just give an example: we
[00:06:12] have known the commands for, I don't even know, a month ago in English precisely
[00:06:16] so that it's easy to give commands to allies, and in that
[00:06:19] sense, our mutual understanding of things
[00:06:22] is the same. Of course, at home, we have advantages, and
[00:06:26] on our terrain, let's be honest, we fight better than
[00:06:29] any of the allies. There's no need for us to be ashamed of that. But
[00:06:33] they are clearly integrated, and that integration
[00:06:36] happens through very complex exercises and
[00:06:40] training, and again, if something through
[00:06:53] So we've got an hour of rollback. Drone teams have been harassing uh friendly forces in the region of
[00:06:57] Taba. We must infiltrate into the area of
[00:06:59] operation, locate and destroy enemy drone
[00:07:03] teams and equipment, then ex-field to friendly
[00:07:06] lines.
[00:07:12] A soldier's life remains distant and hazy.
[00:07:34] We see strong men, they are doing something somewhere, they are
[00:07:37] constantly training. I am currently trying to experience
[00:07:41] what it's like when you actually...
[00:08:13] the HK416. Okay, this one has
[00:08:16] a
[00:08:18] a uh special apparatus on the front so that we can fire blank
[00:08:22] ammunition. But normally this part is not on it. It fires
[00:08:26] 5.56 ammunition, so it's about 4 kilograms. Okay. And
[00:08:30] and in some kind of situation I need to run like
[00:08:33] this, yeah, and very fast, yeah. And then you would also have
[00:08:36] your backpack on, because it's a short mission, we obviously don't
[00:08:40] have all of uh the...
[00:08:42] water and the rations that we would normally
[00:08:46] have. It's a short exercise. So right now you have
[00:08:49] them up.
[00:08:51] Okay. So now you're fully
[00:08:55] equipped for combat. And then uh, obviously you would have
[00:08:59] the the battle belt with the pistol.
[00:09:02] Okay, and how many kilos is everything
[00:09:05] together? We try not to count, but it's it
[00:09:08] is quite heavy. Uh, depending on the mission, obviously if your mission is
[00:09:24] I train hard and I have strength, but this that is
[00:09:27] around me now, it's heavy. I feel the
[00:09:30] weight, it presses my
[00:09:33] breathing, and it really makes my pulse
[00:09:36] go up. It's really hard, so I can't imagine if you had
[00:09:40] to run at full speed here and...
[00:09:44] it certainly creates respect
[00:09:45] for the men.
[00:09:54] While you can get used to the weight of the equipment and in the big picture it's always
[00:09:58] the same, there's one thing you can never be sure of:
[00:10:02] the Estonian weather. Even today's planned light
[00:10:05] forest training becomes a greater challenge
[00:10:08] than expected when
[00:10:09] it starts to rain.
[00:10:16] Well, as we can see, it doesn't matter what the weather
[00:10:19] is like. If the boys have a training or
[00:10:23] practice time, they have to do it. How often do you
[00:10:26] practice your things
[00:10:28] like this?
[00:10:31] there's no week that we will take off and just not do anything, we we have to
[00:10:35] keep our our skill level up and it doesn't really matter what the
[00:10:39] weather is like, we have to we have to train to be ready
[00:10:43] to fight in whatever conditions. The battle group led by
[00:10:45] Brandon is not actually here as part of a NATO mission,
[00:10:49] but in addition to it. Estonia and
[00:10:52] France have a bilateral agreement, under which also...
[00:11:25] but uh, I would definitely say that if I was to sum up the
[00:11:29] Estonian soldiers that I have met, one of the the the
[00:11:33] best ways that I could describe it would be quiet professionals, so
[00:11:37] they're not going to be the loudest person in the room, or they're not going to, you're not going
[00:11:41] to have much unnecessary
[00:11:43] uh talking for for nothing. But you can see that
[00:11:47] they're steadfast, dedicated, they include you in the
[00:11:50] group and they just make you part of the
[00:11:52] team.
[00:12:00] The life of a mission soldier means months away
[00:12:03] from home. In order to alleviate homesickness even a little,
[00:12:07] the British have brought their own cooks here. So every day on the
[00:12:11] table are
[00:12:12] home-cooked meals.
[00:12:16] We do like fish and chips type for the British type dishes, so our
[00:12:20] troops don't miss home. Do you really only serve
[00:12:23] English food here, or do Estonian
[00:12:27] dishes
[00:12:28] also make it onto the menu?
[00:12:33] We also have like vegetarian diet
[00:12:37] requirement type food for everyone. We feed
[00:12:40] around
[00:12:44] like one day. A good meal is the basis of everything, and if at least
[00:12:48] an attempt is made to create a little bit of a home feeling in the kitchen,
[00:12:52] the same cannot be said about the soldiers' living quarters. Here
[00:12:56] you have rooms for
[00:12:58] soldiers, so on the left and right, rooms for 10
[00:13:02] with the
[00:13:03] facilities
[00:13:06] also in the corridor, very Spartan, but what else
[00:13:10] can one expect?
[00:13:13] Indeed,
[00:13:19] perfectly adapted to the mission. In fact, we
[00:13:23] are well settled in the...
[00:13:25] You have infrastructures that are truly excellent, While the British come here for
[00:13:28] half a year at a time, the French rotation lasts four
[00:13:31] months.
[00:13:32] Jeremy
[00:13:38] to his homeland.
[00:13:43] Training feasible here in
[00:13:46] Estonia.
[00:13:51] that you have really well developed and that are modern and adapted.
[00:14:25] fiance's picture.
[00:14:27] This photo was taken at my sister wedding
[00:14:31] with my fancy. Okay. It's so nice. Thank you.
[00:14:35] But when is your wedding? Oh, next year.
[00:14:38] Uh, we don't fix any dates, because
[00:14:41] I don't have my programation for next summer, but we
[00:14:45] we up for July
[00:14:46] 2027.
[00:14:49] It must always be remembered that allied units, well,
[00:14:52] they consist of people, they will go back from here with memories,
[00:14:56] and these memories are not just memories of the barracks or training. These
[00:15:00] memories also include white nights and the knowledge of
[00:15:04] how an Estonian mosquito buzzes, how a Midsummer bonfire
[00:15:07] smells, and gingerbread at Christmas. They go
[00:15:10] back home with this memory, and at home, they will pass on that memory
[00:15:14] to their spouses and children, neighbors, relatives, and
[00:15:17] acquaintances, and if they just think for a moment, we have rotations
[00:15:21] here, meaning they change every year, and
[00:15:25] how many times do these interpersonal
[00:15:28] connections change, this knowledge that this here is
[00:15:32] its own Europe, and that
[00:15:34] through years of rotation.
[00:15:37] Through rotations, this knowledge has reached tens and
[00:15:41] tens of thousands of families in England and France.
[00:15:44] It is a security
[00:15:47] bond that connects us to the rest of Europe.
[00:15:50] When you go back to France, you will be
[00:15:54] waiting for your new mission, and if you are given
[00:15:57] the opportunity to come back to Estonia, would you come back here?
[00:16:01] Indeed, there is another possibility for me to return to Estonia
[00:16:04] in a little over a year... and I would
[00:16:07] gladly seize it, precisely as I just told you,
[00:16:10] for all the training opportunities and
[00:16:14] the excellent work. Who
[00:16:17] pays for all this, the fact that there are French here, the fact that there are
[00:16:20] US allies here, the fact that there are British here? Who
[00:16:24] pays? Well, in the end, our people pay for
[00:16:26] everything. Does it mean we pay for our allies being here?
[00:16:30] Well, partly certainly. Partly it is certainly also paid for by the allies themselves, because these
[00:16:34] active servicemen. "They receive
[00:16:38] their salaries every month from the British and French governments,
[00:16:40] their families are somewhere, these are fathers who
[00:16:44] don't see their children, mothers who don't see their husbands, who are all here,
[00:16:48] so, uh, if we talk not only about the financial dimension, then we should
[00:16:52] not underestimate the sacrifice that the allies make for our security, and
[00:16:56] they don't do it out of altruism and love for Estonia, although
[00:16:59] we might like to think so. They do it because they
[00:17:03] understand that their own security begins at the Narva River, their security
[00:17:06] depends on whether Estonia remains in Europe. All this armament, all this
[00:17:10] ammunition, all other consumables they
[00:17:13] use, all this training that these
[00:17:16] units receive before they come to Estonia, because they don't come to Estonia
[00:17:19] just from nearby, this is all developed
[00:17:22] at the expense of our allies' pockets,
[00:17:26] uh, so it's not like we alone pay for it, but in Estonia
[00:17:30] we support them, or how partly, we have
[00:17:33] built them infrastructure, we naturally
[00:17:36] enable them to use our training areas, we do it
[00:17:40] with them, a few other things,
[00:17:43] but all this is little compared to what
[00:17:46] these allies actually invest
[00:17:49] in this structure.
[00:17:53] British soldiers are not only practicing military cooperation
[00:17:57] here in Tapa, but also a slightly different kind of practice, namely
[00:18:00] they have their own choir, which is currently preparing to perform in Tallinn.
[00:18:04] going.
[00:18:11] The men who are about to take the stage are united, in addition to their military service,
[00:18:14] by the fact that their roots are all in the Pacific Ocean,
[00:18:18] on the small island of Fiji. Similarly to Estonians,
[00:18:22] Fijians also consider themselves a singing nation, so it's no wonder that
[00:18:25] when a group met in the British army, they immediately formed their own
[00:18:29] choir.
[00:18:37] in order to put a group of boys and girls, men and
[00:18:41] women together uh in this battle group, mean it's been
[00:18:44] phenomenal, it's been significant and very proud proud moment as
[00:18:48] well to be Fijian in in a country
[00:18:51] where we call, which is home away from home.
[00:19:08] In addition to the choir, Chaplain Rocotorotoro also takes care of the
[00:19:12] mental health of the entire British battle group, because let's be honest,
[00:19:15] being a soldier is not exactly an easy job. It turns
[00:19:19] out that one good way to release tension is indeed
[00:19:22] singing. We soldiers love sound, they love
[00:19:26] they love shouting, but to turn that shouting into some
[00:19:29] positive sounds, it really changes the mood, really changes the
[00:19:32] mood, especially out on exercise, when
[00:19:36] everyone's depressed. Whether it's um cold and wet
[00:19:39] weather, or people just running short of food, or
[00:19:43] moral, it just lifts the spirit and changes the mood completely. And I
[00:19:46] just wanted to help soldiers who are feeling
[00:19:50] lonely at times when they away from their loved ones, and sometimes
[00:19:54] it impacts their mental health. Do the singing
[00:19:58] um uh practice just for people just to come in and just release some
[00:20:02] some negative energy and just turn it into some positive
[00:20:05] sounds.
[00:20:14] We are fighting side by
[00:20:16] side, or we are proud of
[00:20:19] you. Over land or sea,
[00:20:23] our sky, oh, when the bullets go
[00:20:27] rustling
[00:20:29] by, we are with the wells material
[00:20:33] typing by your side.
[00:20:43] As the choirmaster said, one of the goals of singing is to keep
[00:20:46] spirits high. This is something that needs careful attention
[00:20:52] for mission soldiers, whether they are our men abroad or allied
[00:20:55] soldiers here. a welfare
[00:20:57] service
[00:20:59] uh padre from kind of pastoral um
[00:21:03] element to look after them. And on camp, you've got a lot
[00:21:06] of kind of facilities they can use, so the
[00:21:10] gym, uh the naffi where they can just chill out, um, you know,
[00:21:14] watch a bit of football, and they've got that evening time, uh,
[00:21:18] even chill out and
[00:21:52] Well, you see them in the city and hear Estonian, Russian, English,
[00:21:55] French, whatever troops are here at the moment, and
[00:21:59] they also go to pubs. Do they disturb the
[00:22:02] city's peace in any way? No, no, not in my opinion. I haven't
[00:22:06] personally noticed anything but positive interactions. Even if there's
[00:22:10] something, well, in a pub, things can go a bit
[00:22:12] sideways, right? But they have their own military police
[00:22:16] who keep an eye on the boys, so... I, I am very
[00:22:20] satisfied.
[00:22:36] Not a single bad word to
[00:22:38] say about them. Why do you think it is important
[00:22:42] that they are here?
[00:22:46] Well, it's great to have our defense
[00:22:50] forces and all that, but it's still safer
[00:22:52] with more people, I think that's the most important thing, that
[00:22:56] we know we are, we are in NATO, we are united, and that's why
[00:23:00] Estonia is still more protected, but they shouldn't even
[00:23:03] be here, if I find so, because if
[00:23:07] it explodes there, well, in Russian
[00:23:10] they say, I'm just an idiot, honestly
[00:23:13] to say that you feel your
[00:23:15] security is threatened, that because the allies are here, then Tapa lives.
[00:23:24] No, of course, that's why there's that part of the
[00:23:27] airport or the, well,
[00:23:31] where the planes are, and so I've been going here
[00:23:34] for a long time since the war started, but the Tapa campus has been
[00:23:38] here for almost 100 years, so soldiers have always been here. No, they have
[00:23:42] been, well, they have to be somewhere, if you look at it that way,
[00:23:45] but I don't think, well,
[00:23:49] there is. "They don't
[00:23:51] bother me." What the allies
[00:23:55] communicate to a potential aggressor
[00:23:58] by being here is that by attacking,
[00:24:01] they will inevitably drag these other
[00:24:05] large and important allies into the war. And
[00:24:07] if countries are dragged into war, who says
[00:24:11] they will come and strike the aggressor
[00:24:15] precisely where the aggressor expects to be struck? No,
[00:24:18] no. If "Russia attacks NATO, then
[00:24:22] it must realize that NATO will attack it everywhere, wherever
[00:24:25] it deems most expedient, with the means at NATO's disposal,
[00:24:29] and NATO has an overwhelming amount of those means. There must
[00:24:32] be no misunderstanding in the mind of any Moscow decision-maker
[00:24:36] or planner that it is possible to wage some
[00:24:39] limited conflict with NATO somewhere in the forests of Võrumaa. No, no.
[00:24:43] A conflict with NATO will cost them immensely,
[00:24:47] precisely because NATO intends to defend itself with all
[00:24:50] available means wherever it deems it most
[00:24:53] expedient.
[00:24:59] What makes a soldier a good soldier? I
[00:25:02] think one of the the things that you have to have to to be a
[00:25:06] soldier is have that spirit of of
[00:25:08] sacrifice. You're going to sacrifice your
[00:25:11] comfort to come out and train, and you're going
[00:25:14] to sacrifice your time not being with your family. The
[00:25:18] sacrifice is probably the most important characteristic for a good
[00:25:22] soldier to have that spirit of sacrifice, being ready to to
[00:25:26] go out and and give the of themselves to
[00:25:30] to defend their country. You have four children at home, how do you cope
[00:25:33] on your difficult days with this sacrifice, as you
[00:25:37] say? Well, I mean, obviously it's it's not
[00:25:40] just the soldiers that have to make sacrifices,
[00:25:44] it's it's at the end of the day, you know, it's a whole family, so
[00:25:48] it's it's obviously difficult for everyone.
[00:25:50] But it's it's something that, you know, I think it's uh it's very
[00:25:53] important, and uh it's just the the types of sacrifices that we
[00:25:57] have to be ready to make if we want to keep our home safe,
[00:26:00] right?
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[00:29:45] they always order very large quantities, and we will find out what
[00:29:49] the residents of Võru think about it. The question is whether they can be
[00:29:52] trusted. Watch the show Comrades-in-arms on Monday evening at
[00:29:56] 8:00 PM on Eesti Televisioon.
[00:29:59] Ukrainian secret operation Vivaldi. Donald Trump's
[00:30:03] desire to curb diesel prices worldwide and Putin's farcical
[00:30:07] elections in Russia. All these topics will be covered tonight in Ukraine
[00:30:10] studio. We start as usual at 8:00 PM on ETV.
[00:30:37] Happy Sunday everyone, our news at half
[00:30:39] past six. Estonia's heart health is among
[00:30:43] the worst in the European Union.
[00:30:47] On the last day of the Russian elections, Moscow was hit by a large-scale Ukrainian
[00:30:50] droonirünnak.
[00:30:54] The Transport Administration confirms that traffic culture has
[00:30:57] deteriorated.