Finland will become a member of NATO on Tuesday, completing a historic security policy shift which alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said was triggered directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. "President Putin had as a declared goal of the invasion of Ukraine to get less NATO," he told reporters at NATO's Brussels headquarters, speaking hours before Finland was officially to become a member. "He is getting exactly the opposite... Finland today, and soon also Sweden will become a full fledged member of the alliance," Stoltenberg said. The Kremlin...

Finland will on Tuesday become NATO's 31st member and the first country to join the transatlantic alliance since North Macedonia in 2020. With Finland's accession, the bloc will gain a modern military organized with the core task of defending against Russian aggression along an 835-mile shared border. Finland's accession has been around a year in the making, the country's voters and politicians prompted by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to jettison long-held neutrality, though cooperation with NATO has always been significant. "We will raise the Finnish flag for the first...

The Finnish flag is due to be raised at Nato headquarters in Brussels, to mark Russia's western neighbour becoming the 31st member of the Western alliance. They had previously both adopted a policy of non-alignment. But in the face of an increasingly belligerent Russian military, they preferred to move to the protective guarantee provided by Nato's Article Five, which says an attack on one member is an attack on all. Sweden's application has for now become stuck, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accusing Stockholm of embracing Kurdish militants and...

Finland is set to become NATO’s 31st member, doubling the military alliance’s border along Russia in a strategic and political blow to President Vladimir Putin. As will all NATO members, Finland will benefit from the collective security guarantee of Article 5: "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all." The Finnish flag will rise between the French and the Estonian flags in a ceremony afternoon ceremony, completing the fastest accession process in the organization's recent history....

Finland will stand “as a full-fledged member of” NATO at a high-level meeting this week in a setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambition to “roll back” the trans-Atlantic alliance. “It's not for Moscow to decide who's going to be a member of NATO or not,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters. “It's for the applicant countries and for NATO to decide, and this [will be] clearly demonstrated here at the NATO headquarters tomorrow when we raise the Finnish flag and finalize the Finnish accession process.” RUSSIAN WINTER OFFENSIVE IN...

Finland To Join NATO Tuesday, Just As Sanna Marin Ousted By Conservatives NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that Finland will formally enter the Western military alliance as its 31st member as soon as Tuesday. "This is a historic week," Stoltenberg told reporters the day before NATO foreign ministers are were set to meet in Brussels. During the Monday comments, he emphasized: "From tomorrow, Finland will be a full member of the alliance." He also expressed hope of Sweden joining in the following months. The announcement of the Scandinavian country's...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that Finland will become the 31st member of the world’s biggest military alliance on Tuesday, prompting a warning from Russia that it would bolster its defenses near their joint border if NATO deploys any troops in its new member. “This is a historic week,” Mr. Stoltenberg told reporters on the eve of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. “From tomorrow, Finland will be a full member of the alliance.” He said that he hopes Sweden will be able to join NATO...

Finland’s flag will be raised for the first time at NATO headquarters Tuesday in Brussels, where leaders will welcome the Nordic country as the alliance’s newest member. “It will be a good day for Finland’s security, for Nordic security and for NATO as a whole,” the organization’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, told reporters on the eve of a meeting of allied foreign ministers. Finland will be welcomed into the U.S.-led security pact as NATO’s 31st member. The country’s entrance also means that NATO’s border with Russia will more than double, Stoltenberg...

BRUSSELS/HELSINKI, April 3 (Reuters) - Finland will join NATO on Tuesday, marking the completion of a swift journey into the military alliance for the Nordic nation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, officials said. Finland has a 1,300-km (810-mile) border with Russia, meaning NATO's frontier with Russia will roughly double in length, and the move drew a pledge from Moscow that it will beef up its forces in border regions. "Tomorrow we will welcome Finland as the 31st member of NATO making Finland safer and our alliance stronger," NATO Secretary-General Jens...