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10,000 reservists hone their skills during Estonia's biggest military training [1]

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Date: 2023-10 

They are all volunteers, all 10 thousand of them, and they are willing to defend not just their homeland but their towns, streets, houses and farms. Say hello to the new recruits, training hard to join Estonia’s remarkable army of volunteers. In the process, they are doubling the size of Estonia’s territorial defence forces to 20 thousand troops.

“These are active reservists, mostly in their 30s and 40s, so they have experience,” explains Major General Riho Ühtegi, Commander of the Estonian Defence League (EDL), as he watches the recruits go through their paces.

“This is the territorial defence concept,” he says. “We look at Ukraine. We want to avoid the situation where the enemy has time to build up defensive lines while our Allies get here. We will give him no peace.”

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