Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Finland hosts its first military exercise as a NATO member in the High North above the Arctic Circle FILE PHOTO: ...

Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen stated that the legislative amendment was necessary to enable Finland’s military defense as part of the alliance and to fully leverage NATO’s collective deterrence.

Starting in January 2026, the Finnish army plans to return to the use of anti-personnel mines, which were removed from service in 2012 in accordance with the Ottawa Treaty, said Inspector of the ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

Imagine if the sound of gunfire from a shooting range was audible from the Thames – or if leafy Chiswick was a military base training the UK’s top urban warfare soldiers to defend cities from foreign ...

KOUVOLA, Finland – Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fort Belvoir-based 29th Infantry Division Headquarters participated in the Finnish training exercise Operation Karelian Spear Nov.

For decades, the Finnish Defence Forces operated ten Soviet Mil Mi-8 helicopters (eight Mi-8Ts and two Mi-8Ps), received in the 1970s by the Finnish Air Force and the Border Guard. The Mi-8 was a ...