NATO warships arrive at Finnish port for drills
3 battleships NATO arrived at the port of Turku, southwest of Finland, on April 25 to exercise with the Finnish Navy as Helsinki was considering the possibility of joining this military alliance.
Department of Defense Finland The minesweeper LVNS Visartis of Latvia, minesweepers ENS Sakala of Estonia and the ship HNLMS Schiedam of the Netherlands will participate in the exercise with two other Finnish minesweepers.
The two-day exercise, scheduled to begin April 28, is intended to prepare Finnish ships to join NATO’s response force in 2022, and focuses on “countermeasures against mines and coordination within a multinational framework”.
Earlier, on April 13, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced that the country would make a decision on whether to join NATO in the next few weeks – a move that made Russia angry.
Finland and neighboring Sweden are close NATO partners but have shied away from joining the 30-member military alliance since NATO was founded in 1949.
Marin said the option to join NATO needs to be analyzed carefully, but everything has changed since Russia launched its military campaign in the Middle East. Ukraine 24.02. Up to now, the war has not shown any signs of abating, NATO member countries still provide weapons to Kiev to deal with Moscow.
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