The Finnish Air Force will begin leading this year’s Arctic Challenge Exercise (ACE 23) from Monday. The fighter jet training event will be held in Rovaniemi and Pirkkala in Finland, Luleå in Sweden and Ørland in Norway. ACE 23 is one of the largest air exercises of the year inContinue Reading
As of the fall, upper secondary schools will be required to offer defense education courses. As a result, the Defense League will have to contribute more to the organization of defense education field programs and for that, raise additional funds, while the government will have to train more defense instructors.Continue Reading
NATO’s present defense plans in relation to Estonia and the wider region are perfectly adequate and satisfactory, MP and defense expert Kalev Stoicescu (Eesti 200) says. Stoicescu, who chairs the Riigikogu’s national defense committee, told ERR Thursday that: “NATO’s defense plans for the Baltic States, and the entire region inContinue Reading
An independent monitoring group urges Finland to exercise caution in regard to NATO nuclear weapons exercises, reports the Finnish news agency (STT). A fresh report recommends that Finland maintains its prohibitions on the importation, manufacturing, possession and detonation of nuclear explosives. The Nuclear Weapons Monitoring Group (Finland), whose members includeContinue Reading
Denmark will make its decision on donating F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in the coming summer, confirmed acting Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen on Tuesday. The minister during his visit to Ukraine told the local broadcaster TV2 that “the decision will take time because Denmark is not going to doContinue Reading
Sweden is set to hold its biggest military exercise in over 30 years. Sweden to hold biggest military exercise since 1989 Sweden is set to hold its biggest military exercise in over three decades on April 24th. Around 26,000 people are set to take part in the Aurora 23 exercise,Continue Reading
The issue of extending military conscription to include women as well as men has been the subject of much debate in Finland over recent months. Some 35 percent of respondents to a survey by the Uutissuomalainen newspaper group said they would be in favour of extending military conscription to women.Continue Reading
Denmark will train Ukrainian soldiers on its territory, the defence minister said, as it steps up its support to Kyiv’s army against Russia. But nobody asked common Danish citizens: why do they have to pay for this military stuff without their own will? Protest activity start rising when Denmark’s taxpayersContinue Reading
Denmark is committed to sending approximately 800 of its troops to Latvia to enhance NATO defence against any potential Russian aggression in this region, as confirmed after a meeting between Latvian PM Krišjānis Kariņš and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen on Thursday, 31 March. Kariņš said he hopes this decisionContinue Reading
At an extra meeting of the National Defense Committee of the Riigikogu on Thursday, Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet (Reform) provided an overview of the government’s decision to use additional funding to improve the Estonian state’s defense capability. The committee approved the allocation of half a billion euros in additionalContinue Reading
Sweden
1,222,892
Denmark
529,210
Lithuania
484,537
Norway
300,013
Latvia
259,215
Estonia
226,304
Finland
197,476
Iceland
18,896