Finland will soon send Ukraine the 22nd package of military aid worth about €190 million. Source: Finnish government’s press service, as reported by European Pravda Details: Finnish President Sauli Niinistö has confirmed this decision following a proposal by the government. The estimated total cost of the package is €190 million. This is the approximate price […]
Finland approved its 22nd defense aid package to Ukraine worth around 190 million euros ($205 million), the Finnish Defense Ministry announced on Feb. 9. The Finnish president greenlighted the package on Feb. 9 based on the government’s proposal. This brings the total military aid provided to Ukraine by the Nordic country to 1.8 billion euros […]
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government said Thursday that it would extend the closure of its long border with Russia for another two months until April 14, because it sees no signs that Moscow was stopping its “hybrid operation” of funneling migrants toward the frontier with the Nordic nation. Finland closed the 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) land border […]
Voters in Finland were electing a new president on Sunday at an unprecedented time for the Nordic nation that is now a Nato member with its eastern border with Russia closed – two things almost unthinkable a few years ago. Polls across the country opened at 9am (0700 GMT) and will close at 8pm (1800 […]
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland said Thursday it would extend the closure of its border with Russia for another month because it suspects Moscow is trying to undermine the Nordic country’s security by sending undocumented migrants across the frontier. Finland closed the border late last year after 1,300 migrants without proper documentation or visas had arrived […]
By Anne Kauranen and Liz Lee HELSINKI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto said on Wednesday he had held constructive talks with China’s President Xi Jinping over the damage inflicted last year to the Balticconnector gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia. Finnish police have named the Hong Kong-flagged NewNew Polar Bear container ship as the prime […]
Finland and Sweden recorded the coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday as thermometers plummeted to minus 40C (minus 40F) as a result of a cold spell prevailing in the Nordic region. In Nikkaluokta, a small village inhabited by the indigenous Sami people in northern Sweden, the thermometer showed minus 41.6C (minus 42.8F) early on Tuesday, […]
Earlier this month, at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki, this editor had the opportunity to sit down with Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland who became known internationally for socializing with friends, but whose accomplishments in office are far more significant, including successfully pushing Finland to join NATO to better protect […]
Finland will provide Ukraine with a new aid package worth EUR 106 million ($116.5 million), the country’s Defense Ministry announced on Dec. 21. This will be Finland’s 21st shipment of military aid provided to Ukraine. Read also: Finland to investigate neo-Nazi Yan Petrovsky’s war crimes “Finland is committed to supporting Ukraine in the short and […]
HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish police on Sunday sought a court order to imprison a Russian man who had been living under an alias in the Nordic country and is accused of committing war crimes against wounded or surrendered soldiers in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Yan Petrovsky, who had been living in Finland under […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Finland is “now going to have problems” because it joined NATO, on the same morning that he claimed not to be interested in fighting any NATO members. In an interview with state-run television, Putin promised that Russia will create a “Leningrad military district” on the border with Finland and […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of migrants crossed into Finland on Friday, hours before the reclosure of two southern crossing points on the border with Russia as the Nordic country experiences an influx of asylum-seekers. The Vaalimaa and Niirala crossings had reopened briefly Thursday after being shut down at the end of last month, along […]