🇸🇪🇺🇦Training of Ukrainian soldiers Sweden contributes to the basic training of Ukrainian instructors and soldiers through the UK-led Operation Interflex. The Home Guard has participated on several occasions, providing a total of around 500 instructors — both personnel from the military regions and volunteer Home Guard soldiers. Since the Swedish Armed Forces received the assignment in 2022, the Home Guard and the Army have together helped train more than 56,000 Ukrainians. Sweden is one of s

Northern Strike exercise has ended in Rovajärvi. On 17 November 2025, Finland launched the Northern Strike 225 artillery exercise at the Rovajärvi training area in Lapland, around one hundred kilometres from the Russian border, as reported by Finnish News Agency YLE. The drill brings together 2,200 soldiers and some 500 pieces of military equipment in one of Western Europe’s largest live-fire ranges. Beyond its scale, the exercise is notable for the first deployment to 🇫🇮Finland of two 🇵🇱Pol

🇺🇦 #SSO group entered the Russian positions where they were not expected! Operators of one of the Special Operations Forces units conducted a successful reconnaissance in the North #Slobozhansk direction. The SSO group passed beyond the advanced Ukrainian positions and unnoticed entered the enemy-controlled territory. After additional reconnaissance by drone, the special forces began direct actions, which were repeatedly honed during training and other tasks. The main firepower of the group, a