The non-aligned status gave them [Finland and Sweden ... World War Three. Putin hawk Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the powerful Russian security council and ex-defence minister, said Russia rejected ...

Sweden, along with Finland, is a member of the Arctic Council, an organization overseeing the northernmost parts of the world whose members include Russia, Canada and the United States.

His focus is Russia and Ukraine ... a screen whose images ranged from chess players hunched over a board, a world map and former Soviet revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin and Putin, which ...

A newly disclosed map has given insight into the reach ... it doesn't really matter what the total number really is." Russia intensifies World War 3 fears as global tensions on knife edge with ...

Unlike Sweden, neighboring Finland maintained a stronger defensive posture given its shared border with Russia, despite maintaining a decades-long neutrality status following World War II.

David Brennan is Newsweek's Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts from London with a focus on NATO, the European Union, and the Russia-Ukraine War. David joined Newsweek ...

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 ...

Sweden and Finland have all begun warning their residents to prepare for the possibility of war as Russia’s full-scale ... which has been issued five times since World War II, is now twice ...

Today’s main threat — though not the only one — is the Soviet Union’s successor state, Russia ... that Sweden faced “the most serious security situation since the Second World War.” ...