OREANDA-NEWS. Estonian Defense Minister Jüri Luik believes that President Kersti Kaljulaid should not visit Moscow on May 9 if she receives such an invitation. “I don’t advise accepting the invitation, especially considering the current situation”, he said on Friday to Sakala.

The Russian Foreign Ministry, said Luik, recently made statements, "which concern the continuity of the history of Estonia, on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, on Poland and the Czech Republic". "In such a context", said the head of the Ministry of Defense, "being an honored guest at the parade gives a completely incorrect signal that we indirectly support Russian rhetoric".

On April 18, 2019, Kaljulaid traveled to Moscow, where she took part in the opening ceremony of the restored building of the Estonian Embassy. Later it was received in the Kremlin by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who called abnormal the absence of meaningful contacts between officials of the Russian Federation and Estonia for a long time. Kaljulaid invited Putin to visit the Baltic Republic in 2020.