Now Finland is part of NATO, and Sweden hopes to join soon. As the alliance reshapes its strategy in response to Russia's campaign, access to these new territories and their infrastructure opens ...

Sweden is poised to join ... opponents Russia would face if it invaded a NATO member. Article 5 of the alliance states that an attack on one member is an attack against all. Finland's artillery ...

Finland and Sweden had pledged to enter the alliance ... Russia, for its part, responded angrily to the applications of Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Image In Finland’s 200-member Parliament ...

The accessions of Finland and Sweden ... U.S. Swedish soldiers participate in a military exercise in Kungsangen, near Stockholm on February 27, 2024. The country will soon join the NATO alliance ...

NATO's newer ... as one of Russia's most outspoken anti-Western hawks, appeared to be referring to Sweden and Finland, the last two countries to join the Western military alliance.

Putin of Russia finds himself facing an enlarged and motivated alliance ... Finland and Denmark, which also have key islands in the Baltic, and with Norway. Sweden may also join NATO’s ...

The Turkish vote removes the last major hurdle to Helsinki's accession. Sign up here. Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO ... to join the alliance, which ...

HELSINKI — Finland ... about becoming NATO members together at a time when the alliance is seeking to present a united front in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Sweden and Finland ...

Sweden and Finland ... as NATO allies bolster defense measures against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. Both nations joined the transatlantic alliance in the past two years, after Russia ...

NATO's newest member is deploying a fighter jet that is designed for a fight with Russia to protect alliance ... Sweden, along with its neighbor Finland, broke with decades of neutrality to join ...

Sweden and Finland submitted their applications to join ... Finland’s accession to NATO, after which the Nordic country formally joined the North Atlantic Alliance on April 4. Russia has ...

The question posed to Vladimir Putin in September about the U.S. election ... than Russia’s accelerating suppression of opposition. Trump has wrestled with other members of the NATO alliance ...