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Defence

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Defence minister downplays concerns about Russian buildup at Finnish border

Domestic news
12.6.
Three large cranes at a garrison construction site.
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Finland joins Ukraine's Corpus arms procurement group

Foreign policy
4.5.
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Fighter jets patrol southeastern Finland, as Ukraine drone strike hits Russian oil port

Foreign policy
29.3.
An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet seen from below flying through the sky with a trail of smoke behind the tip of each wing.
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Finland to take part in major Nato exercises in March

Foreign policy
21.1.
Large four-engine propeller-driven military plane on an icy airfield, with several men in bright yellow vests next to it on the right side of the photo.
News

Finland's first F-35 fighter jet unveiled at Texas event

Foreign policy
2025
A white and silver fighter jet in a hangar surrounded by dramatic blue, white and purple lighting.
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Domestic news
2025
Photo shows a soldier in camoflauge beside a tree.
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Finland's Defence Committee supports increasing reservist numbers

Domestic news
2025
A reservist firing a Nato-compatible assault rifle at a Finnish Defence Forces demonstration in June 2023.
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2025
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2025
A mint-green coloured Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet parked beside an airplane factory.
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2025
Patria's armoured personnel carriers.
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Foreign policy
2025
Woman standing in the ruins of a destroyed building.
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2025
A black bag with a red patch on it that has a skull and bones illustration beneath the word "mines" stitched into it.
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2025
Men sitting around a table at a briefing, three in camouflage, one in a dark suit.
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20253
A conscript wearing sunglasses holds a black drone in his hands.
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Swedish party wants Finland's help to revamp conscription model

Foreign policy
20252
Swedish soldiers during the Aurora23 military exercise in Sweden in April 2023.
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Foreign policy
2025
Finnish flags at the memorial of the fallen in the war in Ukraine on Maidan Square in Kyiv.
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Finland bans property sales to non-resident Russian citizens

Foreign policy
2025
Portrait of a man with dark suit and blue checked necktie.
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Finland prepares to leave Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines

Foreign policy
2025
Hallitus tiedotustilaisuudessa.
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US Marines practice with Finns to intercept shadow fleet

Domestic news
2025
A US Marine demonstrates the RQ-20 Puma drone.
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Finnish Air Force takes part in Nato exercise in Netherlands

Foreign policy
2025
The cockpit of a Hornet fighter jet, seen from the side.
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Patria invests €40 million in Hämeenlinna facility

Domestic news
2025
Patria vehicles side by side on display.
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20251
Airmen Eeli Mättö and Rasmus Reinikainen wearing camouflage suits and helmets, assault rifles in hands. Their faces are painted white.
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Finnish Air Force commander dismisses concerns over F-35 'kill switch'

Foreign policy
2025
Photo shows a F-35 fighter jet.
News

Explosion injures Finnish peacekeeper in Lebanon

Foreign policy
2025
Finnish peacekeepers training at the UN base in Lebanon.
News

MTV: Purra believes Nato's defence spending target will rise to 3-3.5 percent

Domestic news
2025
The Arrow 24 military exercise.
News

PM Orpo: Finland welcomes historic EU defence spending deal

Foreign policy
2025
Petteri Orpo.
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Thursday's papers: Reassuring talk, election compasses, and snow chaos

Media
202529
Friedrich Merz.
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Supo: Russia remains top of Finland's security threat concerns

Foreign policy
20252
young man with Russian tricolor flag
News

Finland, Denmark aim to bolster defence cooperation, ministers say

Foreign policy
2025
Four men walking in the snow, next to a military tank.
News

Monday's papers: Trump reaction, MP travel, and Lapland over-tourism

Media
202516
A man films a woman who films the aurora borealis.
News

Is Finland's new defence policy already outdated?

Foreign policy
202510
Soldiers in a snowy forest.
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Finnish Reservists' Association: Plenty of volunteers for Ukraine peacekeeping mission

Foreign policy
2025
A group of reservists looking at a map in a forest.
News

Defence Minister: Nato troops will be stationed in Rovaniemi, Sodankylä

Domestic news
2025
Antti Häkkänen and Pete Hegseth in conversation, with photographers and a Nato official in the background.
News

US in Greenland could improve Arctic security, Finnish defence minister suggests

Foreign policy
202512
Six men in dark suits, white shirts and neckties posing for photo with flags in the background.
News

Finland hosts Nordic defence ministers' meeting in Helsinki on Thursday

Foreign policy
2025
Three men, the defence ministers of Norway, Finland and Sweden, shaking hands and smiling in front of an army vehicle, with a soldier behind.
News

New Finnish-Ukrainian warfare drone features at SecD-Day convention

Technology
2025
A military drone sits on a dry, grassy field.
News

Defence Ministry prepares legislation to increase age limit for reservists

Defence policy
2025
A group of reservists looking at a map in a forest.
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Finnish military revamps sniper training with lessons learned from war in Ukraine

Domestic news
2025
A conscript aims a sniper rifle at the firing range in Santahamina.
News

Nato announces stepped-up Baltic presence at Helsinki meeting

Foreign policy
2025
Kristen Michal, Alexander Stubb and Mark Rutte.
News

Tuesday's papers: Nato meeting, Kela job race and disappearing snow

Media
202525
Authorities on the deck of the Eagle S tanker.
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