🇫🇮 Finland Mentioned

The strategy follows last month’s meeting of leaders from 12 countries, including Germany, France, Finland and Denmark.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who also took part in the talks, said "genuine progress" was made on proposals to achieve peace but gave no details and warned that patience would be needed.

During the visit, Zelenskyy met with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo, along with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff. Stubb said, “Today was a good day for peace.” The Finnish president said Witkoff intends to fly to St. Petersburg on Wednesday to meet with Russian leaders and discuss ideas from the Oslo meeting. Zelenskyy said this about Russian-launched missiles while standing next to Finnish and Norwegian leaders.

Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, and Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, also took part, alongside EU and British security officials.

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.

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

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

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.

He also met the Danish and Finnish ambassadors, Merete Juhl and Jukka Pajarinen, later the same day.

Asked about Le Pen's criticism, French officials noted that France was far from the only country heading to the polls next year. Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Greece and Finland are also due to hold elections.

He travelled to the UK in March last year from his home in Stavanger, but two days later – before he could carry out the hit – armed police arrested him at a hotel in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.