Even after the war in Ukraine ends, Russia will continue to pose a serious threat to European security. “Russia is indeed building up its military efforts for the second phase of its potential aggression.

Moscow seeks out divisive issues, immigration, unemployment, defense, to foster distrust and weaken policymaking,' says Sean Wiswesser - Anadolu Ajansı

Finland's President Alexander Stubb has said that his American counterpart Donald Trump is the "only one who can force" Russian leader Vladimir Putin to sit down for peace talks regarding the war in Ukraine.

Under threat from Putin, Finland has developed a comprehensive security strategy that sees society playing a vital part.

You have to "force Russia to come to the negotiating table" and that is the deal the US leader is trying to make," Alexander Stubb said.

Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Russia poses a “permanent threat” to European security and urged Washington to send the weapons to Ukraine so it can strike Russia deep inside and bring Pres

Domestic theatre: For Putin, confronting the West plays well at home. As Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, recently claimed, “Europe fears its own war”. For the Kremlin, that fear reinforces the narrative that Russia is the assertive power, and that the West is indecisive.

Finland is a key target of Russia's hybrid operations, according to Sean Wiswesser, a former US intelligence officer, who spoke to Yle during a recent visit to Helsinki. Wiswesser is a former officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who has tracked Russian President Vladimir Putin for decades.