"Had it continued for another 12 minutes, the carnage would have been much worse than the four basic cables that were there," Finnish President Alexander Stubb said.

A researcher says that hardly anyone has high expectations for Finland's year-long leadership term of the OSCE. But Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has a different view of the situation.

Russia's oil shipments via the Baltic Sea fell by roughly 10% in the last four months of 2024, the Finnish Border Guard said, as the impact of EU sanctions against Russian oil and gas exports adopted in June took effect.

Planned Russian military reforms that would increase Moscow's troop numbers by 30% are a threat to NATO and should be met with vigilance, the chief of Finland's military intelligence service Pekka Turunen said on Thursday.

On January 1, 2025, Finland assumed the Organization for Security and Co-Operation (OSCE) chairpersonship ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act (also known as the Helsinki Accords). Finland’s chairpersonship comes at a difficult time for the OSCE, the world’s largest security organization with 57 participating states.

New radars at the small mountain top significantly expand Russian air defence forces' eyes and ears over northern Finland and Norway.

Chinese researchers apply for patents for ‘submarine cable cutting devices,’ while Russian experts boast on television that cable-cutting will

According to military expert Marko Eklund, a tent camp on the Karelian Isthmus has expanded since last spring, and there is more equipment in Russia's Luga district than ever.

Finland, the three Baltic states and the U.K., has stepped up efforts to track shadow fleet vessels to safeguard undersea infrastructure. “Specific vessels identified as being part of Russia’s shadow fleet have been registered into the system so they ...

HELSINKI - Planned Russian military reforms that would increase Moscow's troop numbers by 30 per cent are a threat to Nato and should be met with vigilance, the chief of Finland's military intelligence service Pekka Turunen said on Jan 16.

such as two fiber-optic data cables running between Finland and Germany, were cut last year. Though the Eagle S is registered in the Cook Islands, European officials say it's tied to Russia ...