Norwegian and Finnish soldiers train together in Lapland this week
By Hannah Thule The RYSKE military exercise ends on Friday, July 26. This week the military exercise RYSKE will occur
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US soldiers get a day out in Lapland
Finnish Lapland has been the site of numerous international military exercises this spring. Around 1,500 US soldiers are currently in
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Finnish volunteer soldier dies in Ukraine
The 21-year-old man from eastern Finland is the third Finnish citizen known to have died in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion
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New Russian war monument near Norway praises battle and aggression in Ukraine
The Kola Peninsula has hundreds of war memorials paying tribute to Soviet soldiers and victims of Nazi German aggression during
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Mushers from Russia’s Arctic Brigade practice dog sledding along Finnish border
With weapons on the shoulders, infantry solders learn how to traverse Arctic borderlands with dogs. The first dogs arrived in
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