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President Sauli Niinistö on Tuesday said that Finland´s membership is not targeted against anyone and it will not bring changes the foundations or objectives of Finland’s foreign and security policy. President Sauli Niinistö spoke on occasion of Finland´s NATO joining in Brussels on Tuesday. Photo: President Office. “Finland’s membership is not targeted against anyone. Nor […]

Russian authorities blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies on Monday for allegedly orchestrating the killing of a prominent pro-Kremlin military blogger in a St. Petersburg café bomb blast. A portrait of Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is seen among flowers at a makeshift memorial by the explosion site in Saint Petersburg on April 3, 2023.   –  Copyright  OLGA […]

Finland will officially become the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, a step that will make Finland safer and the alliance stronger, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced Monday. An empty flag pole stands between flags of NATO members waiting for the raising ceremony for Finland’s accession to the bloc outside the NATO headquarters in Brussels, […]

Ukrainian missile and artillery units struck an enemy command post, three areas where the invaders’ manpower was concentrated, three air defense positions, as well as six other important objects. Ukrainian missile and artillery units struck an enemy command post, three areas where the invaders’ manpower was concentrated, three air defense positions, as well as six […]

As the dust settled on Gershkovich’s detention on Thursday in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, the event looked set to go down as a milestone in the deterioration of already abysmal relations between Moscow and Western capitals. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP Few seem to take at face value the […]

The Russian tanks had been in Bucha for more than a week. The Ukrainian counter-offensive launched days prior was unsuccessful — and the invaders’ stranglehold was beginning to tighten on the key town on the road to Kyiv. Photo:Telegram channel The evacuation of Bucha’s inhabitants became more and more risky, then impossible. The city was […]

Finland and Sweden will become “targets” for Moscow if they join NATO, warned the Russian ambassador in Stockholm. After their accession, “the total length of the borders between Russia and NATO will almost double”,  Ambassador Viktor Tatarintsev said on Tuesday. A US solider on a NATO training exercise in Sweden. –  Copyright  James Brooks/Copyright 2022 The […]

Since early February, Somaliland, a small self-declared republic in East Africa, has found itself engaged in open conflict along its borders. In Las Anod, a town in the territory’s southeast, local protests broke out in December 2022 over increased insecurity. They eventually escalated into an armed confrontation after the Somaliland army cracked down violently on […]

The long-running drama over the reform of UkrOboronProm, Ukraine’s problematic state-owned defense production giant, is seeing a new round amid Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of the country. Ukrainian soldiers load ammunition into tanks on the front line near the towns of Vuhledar and Mariinka in Donetsk Oblast on Feb. 14, 2023. (Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via […]