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A newly established Estonian defence firm that is drawing on the talent of several of the country’s defence-industry heavyweights has announced it will start producing anti-drone missile systems in Ukraine at a time when that country is facing increasingly intense Russian air raids.

“Expansion into Ukraine is the most important early strategic choice for Frankenburg. We will work tirelessly to launch our unique missile manufacturing in Ukraine to provide much-needed C-UAS (counter-uncrewed air system, ed) assets to the warfighter,” said Taavi Madiberk, a technology executive who helped found the company in January.

Frankenburg Technologies develops and produces air-defence systems that are capable of being mass-produced.

Other notable figures involved with the firm include its chief executive, Kusti Salm, former Estonian defence official whose appointment was announced today; Martin Herem, Estonia’s recently retired top military commander and Kuldar Väärsi, the chief executive of Milrem Robotics.

A proposed hydrogen network linking six countries in the Baltic Sea region could transport up to 2.7m tons a year by 2040, according to a study published Monday suggesting that the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor would be commercially viable.

The study—known as a pre-feasibility study—was conducted as part of an agreement among the transport-system operators in Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in June to develop cross-border pipelines, national grid networks and hydrogen-storage facilities.

The findings should lead to the next step—a feasibility study—that will look more closely at the technical, commercial and financial aspects and establish a timetable for implementation.

Spanning an estimated 2,500km, such a pipeline could become one of Europe’s first cross-border hydrogen pipelines, Ontras Gastransport, which operates gas-transmission systems in Germany, said in a statement.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network, transport ministers from the three countries say.

Set to link the Baltic capitals of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius on a new track with passenger trains running at speeds of up to 250km/h, the Rail Baltica project was launched in 2014 as a pan-Baltic joint venture with funding primarily provided by the EU.

The project is scheduled to be completed in 2030, while a Lithuanian-Polish link to will be finished in 2028.

However, speaking after an earlier meeting on Saturday with with the Latvian and Lithuanian, Vladimir Svet, the Estonian infrastructure minister, said that while that remained the goal, that the three countries would be keeping an eye on costs and would be looking to keep the budget down.