🇫🇮 Finland Mentioned

Finland seeking one million land mines as it eyes Russian threat.

The 27-country bloc - which includes Arctic nations Finland, Sweden and Denmark - also needs more icebreakers, the strategy says.

With three Arctic nations among its 27 members – Denmark, Finland and Sweden – the European Union has skin in the game.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Finnish President Alexander Stubb in Oslo on October 20, 2026. Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said earlier that Oslo would host talks between Zelensky, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner – the latter taking part remotely – as well as Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

Cosmos 2612 may have passed ICEYE-X36, a satellite owned by the US arm of the Finnish company ICEYE.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Zelensky had asked Oslo and neighbouring Finland to organise the meeting with the US and European allies "at a critical time for Ukraine". Witkoff is expected to be joined by video-link by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and by several European representatives, including Finnish President Alexander Stubb and officials from the UK, Poland, France and Germany, as well as the EU and Nato.

The prime ministers of Norway and Finland will attend the talks in Oslo on Tuesday, while President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to attend remotely because of illness.

US envoy Steve Witkoff is expected in Oslo to take part in the talks on Tuesday with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, according to a government statement in Norway.

Finland's President Alexander Stubb said he would attend meetings with Zelenskiy and Stoere to discuss "Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and the overall security situation in Europe."

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will participate in Ukraine talks in Oslo, joining President Zelensky and leaders from Norway and Finland, as confirmed by the Norwegian government.

With three Arctic nations among its 27 members – Denmark, Finland and Sweden – the European Union has skin in the game.

Finland is seeking to acquire one million anti-personnel mines. The plan to spend 100 million euros ($112 million) on the munitions comes after Helsinki and regional peers withdrew from a United Nations compact rejecting their use. Colonel Riku Mikkonen of the Army Command told Finland’s national news agency STT that officials are now gathering information from suppliers regarding the deal. Helsinki would like domestic manufacturers to supply the mines, and about half a dozen Finnish firms qualify. Finland joined the Ottawa Convention in 2012, but announced its withdrawal in April 2025, citing a worsening security climate. Finland shares a border of roughly 1,340 kilometres (830 miles) with Russia.

Alberta is a vast, resource-rich state with a population slightly smaller than Finland or New Zealand.

ICEYE-X36 is originally a Finnish satellite, launched into space in March 2024 from the Vandenberg space base in the United States, which is also used for the space programme — both military and civilian. ICEYE-X36 uses radar observation and has cooperated with the Ukrainian government since 2022.

The Russian military satellite Kosmos-2612 came very close to the ICEYE-X36 radar satellite, owned by the Finnish-American company ICEYE. An echo of the Russian-Ukrainian war in space: it seems that Russian satellites are following a Finnish device that supplies images to Ukraine’s armed forces.

Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway have issued advisories urging their citizens in France to avoid demonstrations and follow the guidance of local authorities.

Further, MEPs will also decide on disbursing €489m to Mediterranean member states ravaged by storms and flooding, and €1.1m to retrain hundreds of workers laid off in Finland’s paper industry cuts – both on Wednesday (21 October).

The ambassadors of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will discuss security and crisis preparedness in Makati on 4 November.

Among them is the Finnish biotechnology group UPM, which has recently built a biorefinery for wood-based chemicals in Leuna.

It was with boyish excitement that I clambered down the narrow stepladder and into the control room of FNS Pori, one of four fast attack crafts in the Finnish navy. These vessels spend most of the time patrolling the Gulf of Finland and the archipelago of small islands that straddle the Russian, Estonian, and Finnish borders. The top brass of Finland’s military wants you to understand the acuteness of the danger. I was at the Helsinki Security Forum, a gathering of government and industry representatives and military experts from around the world, earlier this month.