Helsinki joined NATO in April 2023. While Sweden shares a sea border with the Russian city of Kaliningrad, Finland has an 830-mile land border with Russia's northwest. It is unclear whether either ...

The addition of Sweden would reinforce the eastern region of the alliance and increase NATO's presence around the Baltic Sea. Until Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Sweden had avoided military ...

Finland, along with its neighbor Sweden, applied to join NATO in May 2022, reversing decades-long policies of maintaining military neutrality on the global stage. Russia's ongoing, unprovoked war ...

With Hungary's parliament voting to ratify Sweden's bid to join NATO ... is a right-wing nationalist who has forged close ties with Russia. The country cited criticism from Swedish politicians ...

Both Finland and Sweden asked to join NATO in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. After accession talks with NATO, Finland was approved to join in April. Sweden was made an invitee and was able to ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine ... Jonatan Vseviov. With Sweden joining @NATO many are posting a map showing a "NATO Lake" as the Baltic Sea. But there's danger here. Most haven't heard of ...

Sweden joined NATO officially Thursday in a historic expansion of the military alliance. The historic expansion of the military alliance — Finland also joined last year — was set in motion by ...

Putin of Russia finds himself facing ... to try to erase one neighbor from the map, then he might well not stop there.” Mr. Blinken said Sweden’s membership was a clear example “of the ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine, that changed. Now Finland is part of NATO, and Sweden hopes to join soon ... alliance will reshape Europe's security map. The region from the Baltic in the south ...

Sweden's security service said Russia's activities were mainly aimed at undermining Nato cohesion Russia poses the greatest threat to Sweden due to its aggressive attitude towards the West ...

Sweden and Finland, NATO's newest members, reported separate airspace violations by Russian military planes in the past week amid a major alliance exercise in the region. Beyoncé Replaces Sphere ...