Sweden’s participation in NATO’s defense mission is a direct result of the country’s decision to join the alliance following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Like Finland, Sweden ...

For the first time, Sweden has deployed its advanced Gripen fighter jets to help defend NATO’s airspace. Sweden Joins NATO’s ...

Sweden sends six Gripen jets to Poland for NATO’s Air Policing, marking its first forward deployment as a NATO member.

Sweden on Tuesday formally applied to join NATO, the country's SVT and TV4 news channels reported. Both outlets published footage of Foreign Minister Ann Linde signing what they said was the ...

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“We Social Democrats consider that the best for Sweden and the Swedish people's security is that we join NATO,” Andersson said during a news conference Sunday in Stockholm. “This is a ...

Russian officials made an abrupt about-face this week as Sweden and Finland announced they want to join NATO, with Russia's top diplomat downplaying the historic development after Moscow ...

“The accession of Finland and Sweden will make them safer, NATO stronger ... The EU formally accepted Ukraine as a candidate to join the bloc on Thursday, over four months after Russia ...

BRUSSELS, June 15. /TASS/. There is no guarantee that Sweden will join the North Atlantic Alliance at the bloc’s summit in Vilnius in July, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.

In turn, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto noted that the country intends to wait until the NATO states approve Sweden's application to join the alliance. On May 18, Sweden and Finland filed ...

During the Cold War, the thinking was that should Sweden join NATO, the Soviet Union would seek to strengthen its grip on Finland in order to maintain the balance of power, perhaps even through war.

It is not hard to understand the motivation of Sweden and Finland's recent about-turn in seeking to ditch neutrality to join Nato. What, with millions of Ukrainians continuing to endure Putin's ...