Finnish volunteer fighters in Ukraine say Finland is not ready for war with Russia and call for urgent updates to military ...

According to Finns fighting in Ukraine, the training they received in the Finnish Defence Forces is now obsolete for the ...

So there will be more troops there in the future than before the Ukraine war,' he added, while reassuring that Finland has been ready to defend its allies for decades. The move comes ...

He said the timing of any rapprochement would depend on when the war in Ukraine ended, but said there was “no denying” that Russia would always be Finland’s neighbour. Asked about Stubb’s ...

The threat from Russia was more pertinent in the Cold War, but Finland never forgot the 1944 bombings in Helsinki, orchestrated by the Soviet Union. After the Second World War, many countries ...

Senior border guard officer Juho Pellinen stands along a fence marking the boundary between Finland and Russia near ... thousands of explosive remnants of war.” The Ukraine war has highlighted ...