Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Latvia has ordered an undisclosed number of RBS 70 NG portable air defence launchers and missiles from SAAB, the Swedish weapons manufacturer announced on 31 March 2025. With deliveries planned for the years 2026 to 2030, Latvia pays EUR 190 […]
On 18 March 2025, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have announced they will leave the Ottawa Treaty that bans those who signed it to use anti-personnel mines. The ministers of defence of the four countries have issued a joint statement […]
The Swedish Armed Forces have joined their country’s first NATO mission on 7 February 2025. The 500 troops are now at full strength at Ādaži military base near Riga in Latvia, and since this day officially placed under NATO command. […]
French energy company Oxan has won the bidding for a 900-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Latvia, the Latvian authorities announced on 23 January 2025. Named Saare 1, the offshore wind farm will be situated 60 kilometres (37 miles) […]
On Sunday 26 January 2025, yet another Baltic Sea communications cable was found damaged, this time one between Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland. The cable is owned by the Latvian state-company for TV and radio. Swedish authorities have […]
Latvia is buying 42 ASCOD 2 infantry fighting vehicles from the Spanish division of General Dynamics Land Systems. The deal, announced on 30 January 2025, is worth EUR 370 million and. The Latvian order is the outcome of a tender […]
In about one month, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut themselves off from the Russian power grid, called BRELL. On February 8, the Baltic electricity operators will leave the Russian power supply, and join the European on the 9th, a year […]
The train companies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have made it easier to travel to the capitals of the three Baltic states by train. Launch on 6 January, it is now possible to make the entire stretch in 10 hours, […]
An Iranian-designed Russian bomb drone of the Shahed type violated Latvian aerospace on 7 September and crashed in the NATO member state, Latvian officials said during a press conference on Monday 9 September. During the press conference, Colonel Viesturs Masulis […]
The Valmiera plant in Latvia needs another few weeks to have its first locally build Patria 6×6 armoured personnel carrier rolling out of the plant. It is the result of about 1,000 work hours by 5 employees, Latvian television (LSM) […]
Latvia’s Finance Minister Evika Siliņa buys her country into national airline AirBaltic for EUR 136 million. The parliament of the country agreed to this on 2 May. ALthough Siliņa denies it is a bail-out. AirBaltic is growing and plans to […]
Latvia nationalizes the so-called Moscow House in Riga. Officially called Railway Culture House, it was built and owned by Yuri Luzhkov, when he was Mayor of Moscow in the beginning of the 2000s. The Latvian State Security Service reported last […]