Finnish 2023 Annual Meeting of Heads of Mission: Speech by the Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen
A new era has begun in Finland's foreign and security policy. NATO membership will strengthen not only our security, but…
Russian Government: Meeting on current issues
Agenda: Changes to the rules on granting subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery, the road map for LNG supplies…
Zelenskyy: We are preparing powerful things to strengthen our state, our warriors
Today and this week in general, it is the main task. Weapons for our warriors. New opportunities for our defense.…
Russia: France strongly denounces the dissolution of the Sakharov Centre and the arrest of members of the NGO Golos
France strongly denounces the decision by the Russian judicial system to dissolve Moscow’s Sakharov Centre. A respected institution in Russian…
UN Security Council speakers discuss Western countries supplying arms to Ukraine
Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, speakers in the Security Council today examined the justification and consequences of arms supplies…
UN Security Council: UK statement on Vladimir Putin and international law
UK wants peace. Ukraine wants peace, indeed the whole world wants peace. But President Putin has shown he is not…
UK: £90m boost to Ukraine’s air defence capability
It comes as delivery begins of a new package of drones to Ukraine, funded by the UK-administered International Fund for…
Russia’s war: France utterly condemns Russian attacks against grain silos in Ukraine
These strikes, which damaged grain silos, deliberately targeted infrastructure that is vital to global food security. Russia is once again…
Ukraine: Switzerland implements 11th package of sanctions
On 16 August, the Federal Council decided to enact further sanctions against Russia. This aligns Switzerland with the EU, which…
EU Commission: €135m initially planned for programmes with Russia and Belarus will be transferred to Ukraine and Moldova
Concretely, this funding may support a range of activities, including Solidarity Lanes and the development of cross-border transport links, health…
Ukraine is fighting every day for every child illegally taken by Russia – Daria Herasymchuk
Ukraine will do everything to ensure that even after many years, every Ukrainian child illegally deported by Russia can find…
Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the command post of the 10th Army Corps operating in the Melitopol sector
During a working trip to Zaporizhzhia region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the command post of the 10th Army…
Russia: Putin’s message to participants in the Clean Arctic – Vostok – 77 expedition
Moscow, 15 August 2023 Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants in the launch of...
Sweden: 13th support package to Ukraine focusing on ammunition and spare parts
The Government has adopted a new support package to Ukraine. The assistance includes ammunition and spare parts for several of…
Donetsk region: Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits main command post of the Soledar group
During a working trip to Donetsk region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the main command post of the Soledar…
Russia: Government meeting on external pressure
In the face of mounting external pressure, it is especially important to stimulate the development of our own projects in…
Zelenskyy: We are doing everything to ensure that Ukraine remains a guarantor of food security
We are constantly working with our partners at all levels. Today, Head of the Office Yermak, Minister of Foreign Affairs…
UK: British Commandos train hundreds of Ukrainian Marines
Ukrainian marines were trained by Royal Marines and Army Commandos to conduct small boat amphibious operations, including beach raids. Nearly…
Ukraine: France condemns the latest round of Russian strikes
France utterly condemns yesterday’s Russian airstrikes against the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia. These latest strikes killed at least two…
Ukraine: President Zelenskyy on increasing the potential of country’s capabilities
Our entire territory needs much more air defense systems than we have now. Step by step, we are turning this…
Russia: Executive order on temporary procedure for executing state guarantees provided in foreign currency
Under the Executive Order, the fulfilment of the obligations of the Russian Federation (the guarantor) under the state guarantees of the Russian Federation, which are provided in foreign currency (the amounts of which…
France reaffirms its commitment to Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity
As was stated by Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna, fifteen years after Russia’s aggression against Georgia, France…
Russia’s war: France condemns the latest strikes in eastern Ukraine (August 8, 2023)
France strongly condemns yesterday’s Russian missile strikes targeting the cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk in eastern Ukraine. In Prokrovsk, Russian…
Russia: Executive Order on suspension of certain provisions of international tax treaties
In view of the need to take urgent measures in connection with the unfriendly actions of a number of foreign states against the Russian Federation, its citizens and legal entities, the President…
Zelenskyy: Peace Formula can be the basis for overcoming other global problems
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasizes that the Peace Formula he proposed is an important platform not only for a just end…
Zelenskyy: Capturing Russian occupiers speeds up freedom for Ukrainians
Today we have an important result for our team that deals with exchanges. 22 more men are back home in…
Russian attacks continue to affect world’s most vulnerable, UN spokesperson says
Attacks against Ukrainian port infrastructure are not isolated and with Russia’s termination of the Black Sea Initiative, are impacting global…
ICC: Joint statement on States Parties to the Rome Statute
The Court represents the commitment of its States Parties to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes of concern to…
Russia: France on sentencing of opposition figure Aleksei Navalny to 19 years’ confinement
France most emphatically condemns the sentencing today of the Russian political opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny to 19…
Defence Industries: Minutes of President Putin’s meeting with Rostec CEO Chemezov
The CEO of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, submitted a report on the corporation’s performance in 2022 and briefed the President on…
Grain supply: Vladimir Putin held phone call with Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Vladimir Putin outlined Russia's position of principle in connection with the termination of the ”package“ agreements on the export of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports and the unblocking of supplies…
Russia/Ukraine: Communique issued by the French Foreign Ministry
These Russian strikes deliberately targeted the civilian population, another flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. As the Minister for Europe…
Russia: Latest Navalny sentence raises serious concerns, UN rights chief says
The new sentence imposed on jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny on Friday raises renewed serious concerns about judicial harassment and…
An overview of migration to the EU and Finland 1/2023
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues. As a result of the war, around four million Ukrainians have applied for temporary protection…
Russia: EU HRVP on the most recent politically motivated ruling against Alexei Navalny
The European Union strongly condemns today’s ruling against the Russian opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, by a Moscow Court, sentencing him…
Baltic: RAF completes NATO air policing mission after intercepting 50 Russian aircraft
While deployed to Estonia, the RAF has also taken part in a number of major exercises with NATO allies, including Exercise…
Ukraine/ France: Condemnation of Russian strikes targeting Odesa (August 2, 2023)
After pulling out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Russia is once again deliberately putting global food security at risk…
EU Council publishes details of new sanctions against Belarus
In light of the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus, the EU adopted new restrictive measures against 38 individuals and 3…
EU agrees to extend the scope of sanctions on Russia’s war accomplice Belarus
The European Commission welcomes today's adoption by the Council of further targeted restrictive measures arising from Russia's illegal invasion of…
Zelenskyy: Zakarpattia will be one of the drivers of development for the whole of Ukraine
"Now, for the Russian state, this is a battle not only against our freedom, not only against our state. Moscow…
Yearbook of European Security 2023
The first section of the volume explores the EU’s response to the war in Ukraine and the far-reaching repercussions of…
UN Security Council: Russia is inflicting terror on the Ukrainian people – UK statement
Russia is inflicting terror on the Ukrainian people, and in parallel, it is inflicting suffering on its own population, and…
UK sanctions key figures involved in deplorable sentencing of Vladimir Kara-Murza
UK government sanctions six figures involved in the trial of Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is facing 25 years in a penal…
Russian disinformation campaigns: EU lists seven individuals and five entities
Today the Council decided to impose restrictive measures against seven Russian individuals and five entities responsible for conducting a digital information manipulation campaign called 'RRN' (Recent Reliable News),…
Finland is preparing for reconstruction of Ukraine
On 28 July Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio assigned the task of drawing up a plan concerning…
French Government on LGBT+ rights in Russia
Paris, 26 July 2023 Russia has banned gender reassignment surgery. This is yet another stage...
Meeting on economic issues: Vladimir Putin on Russian GDP
The meeting was attended by Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive…