infuriating Russian President Vladimir Putin who has long aimed at rolling back the military alliance's borders. Finland, along with its neighbor Sweden, applied to join NATO in May 2022 ...

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 ...

A rare United States reconnaissance aircraft specializing in signals intelligence conducted its second spy flight since ...

By Johanna Lemola Reporting from Helsinki Finland said Tuesday it was temporarily closing its only remaining open border ... and Sweden quickly moved to join NATO, a step that Russia described ...

FILE Construction of the border comes months after Finland and Sweden abandoned their longstanding policy of military nonalignment and applied to join NATO in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

It did so as it broke ground on a new border ... "Russia was ill-advised," Sauer said, in hoping that its invasion would prevent the expansion of the NATO alliance. Finland and Sweden both ...

HELSINKI – Finland’s Parliament on Thursday passed amended legislation on border security ... for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance — an outcome that has angered Russia.

Construction of the border comes months after Finland and Sweden abandoned their longstanding policy of military nonalignment and applied to join NATO in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.