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Meanwhile, Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials said. It was their first known direct contact since shortly after Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022. After their conversation with Putin, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Zelensky’s office.

Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister held a “frank and substantive” discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the Nordic leaders said. “The outcome of this war will have a direct impact on our and the broader European security. Ending the war requires direct discussions,” President Alexander Stubb said in a joint statement with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

Putin speaks with Norwegian and Finnish leaders.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre spoke by phone with Vladimir Putin, the Finnish president's office said.

In the run-up to the 2026/2027 election super-cycle, similar battles will unfold in Spain, France, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, and Italy in the next 12 months.

The Russian satellite, Cosmos 2612, spent more than two weeks maneuvering toward ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite operated by the American arm of Finnish company ICEYE that supplies imagery to Ukraine’s military through some of its spacecraft, then shadowed it from as close as a third of a mile through the weekend of Oct. 17.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo take part in the Ukrainian-Finnish Business Forum in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine [File: Genya Savilov/AFP]. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Friday that his country has agreed to partner with Finnish firms to develop the system. Zelenskyy reported on Friday that he had agreed with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo that “[Ukraine] will use more of Finland’s satellite capabilities. This is important for our defence, for Ukraine’s resilience. We agreed on this with Nokia and ICEYE. Thank you for the willingness to support our logistics and energy sector – these are key targets for Russia right now.” The Finnish companies signed a letter of intent with the Ukrainian Defence Ministry during Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s visit to Kyiv on Thursday, the DPA news agency reported.

State IT centre Valtori shut down the government's public web services on Wednesday as "a precautionary measure." Valtori said it had not identified any attempt to exploit the flaws and that the outage was not the result of a data breach.

Among those being considered as a key negotiator for the EU is Finnish President Alexander Stubb. According to European diplomatic sources, the Finnish politician has “the best relationship of all EU leaders” with U.S. President Donald Trump. He cited Finland’s long border with Russia as another factor.

Sites and pages have been taken offline by the Finnish government, Edinburgh council and the BBC, with the Netherlands' cyber-security agency also pulling its website.

Authorities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic also said they had shut down websites to apply a security patch to close the PHP loophole.

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm. A secret Turkish government document obtained by Nordic Monitor reveals that Turkish intelligence and counterterrorism authorities conducted an intelligence-gathering operation targeting members of the Gülen movement in Norway, Finland and Denmark, identifying individuals who participated in peaceful demonstrations against the repressive government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and forwarding their personal information […]

This left bodies such as the Finnish government, Edinburgh council and the BBC to take pages offline. Finland has temporarily shut down the government's public web services.

EU governments, meanwhile, need to agree on the bloc's 2028-2034 budget this year before campaigns for elections next year in France, Italy, Poland, Greece, Estonia, Finland and Slovakia politicise the issue.

Those who did so included government agencies in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland, the Edinburgh City Council, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

With reports that hackers were already exploiting the flaws to break into websites, government agencies in the Netherlands and Finland were among those that took sites offline as a precaution.

Witkoff flew into Russia's second city on Wednesday morning a day after conducting what a US official called "constructive" talks in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the leaders of Finland and Norway and European and NATO representatives.

It began changing course late September and eventually moved into the same orbit as ICEYE-X36, a satellite operated by Finland’s ICEYE under contract with the United States.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia on Oct 21 after meeting in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and leaders of Norway and Finland, while President Donald Trump said it was time for Kyiv to end the war with Moscow. Russia launched the Cosmos-2612 military satellite into low Earth orbit in April. It began changing course in late September and eventually moved into the same orbit as ICEYE-X36, a satellite operated by Finland’s ICEYE under contract with the United States.

Following the talks in Oslo, which also involved Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Zelenskyy had appeared relatively positive, telling journalists he had recently held a constructive call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and calling for a trilateral meeting with Trump and Putin.