VILNIUS, December 23. /TASS/. Estonia is ready to send Ukrainians liable for military service home based on Kiev’s requests, the ERR broadcaster reported, citing Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Laanemets.

"If this is what Ukraine needs, Estonia can look for a certain person and hand him over to Ukraine," he said. "In general, we know where these people live and what they do. Most of them have a place to live and a job in Estonia," the minister added.

Although Tallinn has not received any official requests from Kiev yet, the Interior Ministry has repeatedly asked the Ukrainian ambassador and the country’s interior minister to notify it about Ukrainian refugees in the Baltic country if necessary, ERR added. Laanemets plans to put forward an initiative for a bilateral agreement on the matter. Currently, Estonia can only extradite foreign nationals to their home countries if they are facing criminal charges.

Estonia’s Postimees newspaper reported on December 22, citing Janek Magi, head of the Interior Ministry’s Border and Migration Policy Department, that Tallinn had no plans to send Ukrainians liable for military service home. Postimees pointed out that on December 21, global media outlets had cited an interview by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov who allegedly said that Kiev would seek the return of Ukrainians aged 25 to 60 from Germany and other countries. However, the newspaper notes that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry refuted those reports on the same night.