Nearly two years after it requested to join ... strain relations with Russia, which opposes the alliance’s expansion. The addition of Sweden and Finland provides NATO with expanded land ...

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.

The security of Finland and Sweden is of direct importance to the Alliance, including during the accession process,” NATO ... join the bloc on Thursday, over four months after Russia’s invasion.

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 ...

Finland will on Tuesday become NATO's 31st member and the first country to join the transatlantic alliance since North ... and politicians prompted by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

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 ...

Finland became a member in 2023 and Sweden joined ... that Ukraine would join the alliance during the war, because it would put NATO’s members in direct conflict with Russia.

This conflict has arguably become a proxy war between Russia and its NATO adversaries. To find how Russia’s and NATO’s military might compare, 24/7 Wall St. used data produced by the ...