3 years agoIn a phone call @POTUS and @niinisto "discussed their shared concern over Russia's unprovoked military build-up on Ukraine's borders," according to the @WhiteHouse
3 years ago"Operations at several locations in Stockholm According to information, the police have ongoing operations regarding drones at several locations in Stockholm. In addition to Nacka, it will be about central Stockholm, in Norsberg by the waterworks and around Kaknästornet on Gärdet
3 years agoNorway Convicted terrorist, mass murderer Anders Breivik brandished white supremacist messages, gave Nazi salute at parole hearing: @AP report.
3 years agoAnother two Ropucha having left today, we're again most likely looking at a serious joint Baltic Fleet/Northern Fleet amphibious group, only now in the North Sea
3 years agoSweden: At least one drone spotted over Forsmark nuclear plant on Monday, police confirm
3 years agoMore on Swedish drone sightings: - one that overflew Stockholm is on tape - drones flew over 3 NPPs - Luleå airport on Fri - drone seen in Järna - large black "military" drones. Sensitive locations are in elevated surveillance for poss drone incursions
3 years agoThree Ropucha-class LST have left the Baltic Sea through the Great Belt strait
3 years agoSwedish Head of Operations: Russian ships are on their way out of the Baltic Sea
3 years agoDanish FM @JeppeKofod visits contact line in eastern Ukraine today to emphasize Denmark's support for Ukrainian sovereignty
3 years agoThe police have decided to investigate the drone flights over Swedish nuclear power plants on Friday as a national special event, the police write on their website. The investigations are handled locally but coordinated by the police's national operational department, Noa
3 years agoAt 13:48 police of Sweden confirmed that drones have been observed over the Forsmark and Oskarshamn nuclear power plants
3 years agoSwedish Air Force AEW heading east of Öland
3 years agoUpdate from Swedish police: drones sightings at Ringhals and Barsebäck were not confirmed
3 years agoRussian Ship FORTUNA (Pipelay Crane Vessel, Under sanctions, layed pipes for Nord Stream 2) is tracking near Oland, South-West to Gotland
3 years agoGuard from Forsmark's nuclear power plant contacted the police when a drone flying over the facility within the protected area. Large drone that withstands wind as it blows hard in the area. Similar also seen over Ringhals, Barsebäck and Oskarshamn at the same time - Police
3 years agoThe Swedish Armed Forces' emergency force - the operational contingency unit - landed on Friday night on Gotland in a large American transport plane in Visby
3 years agoSwedish military convoy on its way to Nynäshamn
3 years agoA top military chief in Sweden said Friday that there is increased Russian activity in the Baltic Sea which "deviates from the normal picture," leading the Scandinavian nation's military to raise its preparedness
3 years agoCombat vehicles roll on the streets of Visby
3 years agoSwAF Korpen watching Russia
3 years agoLavrov said NATO is artificially luring Ukraine and the Scandinavian countries into its ranks
3 years agoSweden calls up reserve officers to beef up units in Gotland which raised readiness
3 years agoAbiy has 'special responsibility' to end Tigray conflict: Nobel panel
3 years agoAcross Norway, the Civil Defense sirens just sounded the "Important Announcement - Seek information" signal, at 1200 local time. This is normal routine testing, conducted twice annually, in January and June
3 years agoA Finnish readiness unit deployed into a snap drill this morning. Scheduled exercise
3 years agoDenmark has offered to send four F-16 fighter jets and a frigate to NATO's operations in the Baltic region and northern Europe in response to Russia's troop build-up at Ukraine's border
3 years agoThe head of the Defense Intelligence Service of Denmark for six years, Lars Findsen, has been arrested in a serious case of leakage of "highly classified information".
3 years agoDisruption at one of two undersea cables to Svalbard: The disruption is located somewhere between 130 to 230 kilometers southwest of Longyearbyen in the area where the seabed goes from 300 meters down to 2700 meters in the Greenland Sea
3 years agoDeputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde today and discussed shared concerns on Russia’s military build-up on Ukraine’s borders.
3 years agoBlinken in his presser notes that Russia's claims that NATO is threatening Russia is false. NATO "exists to protect, not to attack," he says. "NATO never promised not to admit new members. there was no promise that NATO wouldn't expand"