Prime Minister Dick Schoof said it is possible that Russia will build up military forces along the Northern European border ...

Leave it to the small but mighty nation of Finland to show how to do it. The country of 5.6 million with an 830-mile border with Russia has to take defense seriously. The government in Helsinki ...

This came into force in June 2024. When Finland joined NATO in 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that reestablishing the Leningrad Military District was directly down to NATO increasing ...

Finland has proposed the introduction of EU-wide tariffs on all Russian imports, aiming to supplement existing sanctions and ...

Some 100 miles east of its border with Finland, in the Russian city of Petrozavodsk, military engineers are expanding army bases where the Kremlin plans to create a new army headquarters to ...

In response to Finland's NATO membership, Russian President Vladimir Putin ... advance a little inwards and then beat them back,' military policy expert Lieutenant Colonel Juhani Pihlajamaa ...

Russia shares an 835-mile border with Finland, and by Mr. Stubb’s count ... but remained restricted by Moscow on foreign and defense policy. Finnish news media largely refrained from criticizing ...

KYIV, Ukraine--Finland’s leaders Thursday ... it will be forced to take retaliatory “military-technical” steps. On the ground, meanwhile, Russian forces pounded areas in central, northern ...

Russia is expanding its military infrastructure near the border with Finland, in what experts and officials suggest could be preparations for a potential confrontation with NATO, reports the Wall ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Finland's customs authority said on Thursday it was investigating an attempted breach of Russian sanctions in a case involving sensitive documents related to the construction ...

His focus is Russia and ... A meeting of defense ministers from NATO's Nordic members was cut short after a fighter jet crashed in a military area in the north of Finland. Finland's defense ...