PM Orpo announces preemptive measures as President Stubb engages in balancing act between Moscow and Washington.

If someone would have told me three years ago that Finland would join NATO, that Sweden would join NATO, that Ukraine would become a member of the European Union, et cetera. et cetera, I said ...

Asked if Finland had joined NATO at the wrong moment, just before Trump’s return, he replied: “There’s never a bad time to join NATO. It is the most successful military alliance in the ...

Asked about Stubb's comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that the two countries had enjoyed strong ties before Finland and Sweden had decided to join NATO.

Finland, which joined Nato in April 2023, has a border of more than 800 miles with Russia and applied to join the military alliance shortly after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Russia has begun building new military infrastructure along its border with Finland, in a move Finnish army officials have described as a deliberate attempt to test NATO's alliance and resolve.