Putin walks past Obama at the G20 in St. Petersburg
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) walks past U.S. President Barack Obama (C) during a group photo at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg September 6, 2013. At top left is British Prime Minister David Cameron. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

Russia has just abducted an officer in Estonia, where political experts believed could be a prelude to an incursion in the small state anytime soon.

Mr Putin has been perceived to have intentions of reuniting the once known Soviet Union, but by force.

Just on Saturday, Mr Obama assured Baltic states members of impassioned NATO defense once it sees Russia zoning in to invade Estonia or any other former Soviet republics that are now part of the organisation.

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Russia tested that strong resolved immediately after the speech was made. Merely less than 48 hours after, Eston Kohver, an Internal Security Service officer from Estonia, was abducted by Russian operatives right on the soil of his very homeland Estonia.

According to Estonian officials, Kohver was at the time in a wooded area near the town of Miikse in southeast Estonia, near the Russian border, about to meet an informant. He was there with some of his men waiting for the person to show up.

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Reports said the Russians who took Kohver jammed the radios of his fellow officers and tossed a smoke grenade before seizing Kohver and then brought him into Russia at gunpoint.

As expected, Russian authorities claimed Kohver was caught spying on Russian soil.

"Russian security service FSB kidnapped an Estonian citizen from Estonian soil and took him to a prison in Moscow and even bans the Estonian consul from meeting the Estonian citizen," Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves had said.

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Just days ago, Mr Obama said in his speech that Tallinn and Riga and Vilnius and their respective democracies are just as important to the alliance as are those of Berlin and Paris and London.

He underlined that an attack on one member, no matter how small, already attacks the others.

"Article Five is crystal clear. An attack on one is an attack on all," he said. "So if, in such a moment, you ever ask again, who will come to help, you'll know the answer: the NATO alliance, including the armed forces of the United States of America, right here, present, now."

Mr Ilves is now counting on those words to protect Estonia from its much larger neighbour Russia.

Suffice to say, Estonia has better chances against Ukraine.

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