Estonia backs British calls to let Ukraine blitz Russia with long-range missiles – to force Putin to negotiate

BRITISH calls to let Ukraine blitz Russia with long-range missiles in a bid to force Vladimir Putin to negotiate have been backed by Estonia.

Kristen Michal, the country’s Prime Minister, told The Sun: “We should not have restrictions on Ukraine using weapons.”

Ukraine fears a Donald Trump victory in tomorrow’s US election would see Kyiv’s troops thrown to the wolves.

Trump has claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a day.

Michal said it was better to support President Zelensky’s push to win.

Speaking to The Sun at the Nato war games in neighbouring Latvia, he said: “The strongest way would be Zelensky’s victory plan.”

Latvia’s Prime Minister Evika Silina strongly backed Kyiv’s bid to join Nato.

She told The Sun: “We were always supporting Ukraine’s path to Nato so we will be the ones probably lobbying even more again.”

America has blocked Ukraine’s demands to fire British Storm Shadow stealth cruise missiles at targets inside Russia.

The White House also rejected calls to give Ukraine Tomahawk land attack missiles.

It came as Latvia hosted a Nato drills to test low earth orbit satellite phones and military 5G networks to let soldiers keep talking in the event of a conflict with Russia.

Troops from across the alliance teamed up with Latvia’s LMT mobile phone network to build hyper-local 5G networks that spanned a few hundred to a few thousand metres.

Armands Meirans, the phone company’s head of defence research, said adapting 5G technology was fast and cheap and reliable.

He said: “If the adversary wants to jam it they need to know the direction to point its radio signal with a louder signal.

“They need to be pretty close or have a very powerful equipment that consumes a lot of power and that is not always available on the battlefield.”