Petteri Orpo says any future peacekeeping role for Finland in Ukraine will be limited owing to its shared border with Russia.

Finland's eastern border-crossing points were closed in November 2023, following a rapid increase in the number of asylum seekers after Russia began allowing people without valid travel documents to ...

we clearly understand that Russia is a danger – a military and non-military danger to all its neighbors, including Finland,” he said. Finland is monitoring the situation, but at the moment, military ...

He confirmed that all border crossing points between Finland and Russia were closed in 2023 and will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Since Finland does not issue visas to Russians, and the ...

Finland is moving ahead with its plan to stop property purchases by some foreign nationals after security concerns surfaced ...

Finland, which shares the European Union's longest border with Russia, joined the Western military alliance NATO in 2023 and drew its Nordic neighbour Sweden to follow in March 2024, both in ...

"We are taking the suspected border violation seriously and have immediately launched an investigation," Finland's Defence Minister Antti Häkkinen noted. Earlier this week, Norwegian F-35s intercepted ...

The Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially severed the flow of electricity between themselves and ...

Born in eastern Finland, an hour's drive from the Russian border, she speaks five languages and keeps a close eye on the eastern neighbour, NATO's Nordic borders and the Arctic region. Currently a ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the Russian ambassador to Helsinki ... The Finnish Border Guard agency was investigating the incident and would ...

A Russian repair ship on the Gulf of Finland is currently within Finland's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) repairing an ...