Estonia’s prime minister Kaja Kallas summoned over husband’s Russian business links

Estonia’s prime minister has been summoned for an interrogation by MPs amid intense pressure on her to resign after her husband was revealed to be involved in an operation shipping supplies to Russia.

Kaja Kallas, an outspoken supporter of Ukraine once regarded as a contender to become Nato’s next leader, has refused to stand down despite reports that she had personally lent €350,000 to her husband’s company.

The scandal has damaged the public image of a leader who has taken a strong moral stance against the Putin regime and derided firms that continued to do business with Russia as “hypocritical”.

President Karis, the Baltic country’s head of state, said Kallas had to answer “difficult and unpleasant questions” in parliament and suggested the affair risked tarnishing