Over time, the Swedes realized that their proximity to Russia would ensure that they would be involved with some kind of hostile action with Russia. Better to prepare for the dark days of conflict rather than rest on their laurels.

Swedish police have been investigating the suspected sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, connecting Germany and Finland. A series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have been damaged in suspected attacks since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022,

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a meeting during the United Nations General Assembly summit in New York City, U.S., September 24, 2024. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS/File photo OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stressed in a call on Thursday that any talks to end the war with Russia must include Kyiv at the negotiating table,

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson warned that the outcome of the war in Ukraine will shape generations to come and that the world was at a crossroads. It comes as

A string of incidents involving damage to cables and other infrastructure in the Baltic Sea have occurred in recent months, amid soaring tensions between the West and Russia over Moscow's war in Ukraine.

In its latest commentary, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter emphasizes that the traditional concept of the West is disappearing. According to the newspaper, the United States is getting closer to Russia,

Sweden's former prime minister Carl Bildt has accused Russia of working with the US to undermine Ukraine's position.

Russia is carefully monitoring Sweden's military activities within NATO and is taking appropriate measures, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, commenting on the statement by the head of Swedish military intelligence Thomas Nilsson about the need to prepare the country's armed forces for a potential conflict with Russia.

(Reuters) -Swedish auto supplier Autoliv has sold its Russian business to local automotive group Avtodom, which has already snapped up German carmaker Mercedes-Benz's former plant in the country, Russian corporate records showed on Friday.

The shift in U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, which enters its fourth year on Monday, has raised alarms in Kyiv and in capitals across Europe. A new documentary finds that those anxieties are especially high in some of Russia’s neighbors on the Baltic Sea.

Today, the folly of that approach has been revealed—and Sweden, NATO’s newest member, appears to be quickly changing course.

Earlier this week, European soccer body Uefa released the list of candidates running for a seat on its influential executive committee at its congress in April. Ther