The silent war going on inside a city at Nato’s eastern border – which could be Putin’s next target
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Home to one of the few crossing points into Russia, the city of Narva is seen by Estonian border force officials as “the end and the beginning of the free world”. “Everything that is on the other side of the border, I wouldn’t use ‘free world’ to describe that,” says Egert Belitsev, director general of the Estonian border force. For the last two years, the museum has hung a banner reading “Putin is a war criminal” on the side of Narva’s castle, facing towards Ivangorod, a Russian border town that lies just 101 metres away. According to Estonian border force officials, Russia has repeatedly flown a large surveillance zeppelin into Narva’s airspace, emblazoned with a Z – a symbol closely linked with Russian propaganda.
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