Estonian president: Tear down the wall of restrictions we’ve built around Ukraine – POLITICO

Alar Karis is the president of the Republic of Estonia.

When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, I was a 31-year-old researcher at the Estonian Biocentre of the Academy of Sciences with two young children. And at home, in Soviet-occupied Estonia, just a few kilometers from an air base that housed heavy bombers carrying nuclear warheads, I watched as Berliners tore down the wall that had divided them for three decades.

I believed, hopeful, that my children would be able to live in a Europe without walls — mental or physical.