Tanks, But No Tanks: Finland Pours Cold Water on Joint Deal

Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas won the election for the chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday Finland, Norway, Sweden and Lithuania were planning to jointly procure hundreds of assault tanks.

According to Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen's staff, there are no plans.

About a third of the Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicles planned to be purchased by the Nordic and Baltic countries are to be assembled in Lithuania, says Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas. “The preliminary agreement is that about 30 percent of the CV90 armored infantry vehicles not only purchased by Lithuania, but all purchased by the Nordic and Baltic countries would be assembled in Lithuania, that is, Lithuanian businesses would be inclu…

Rifles, skis and snow tanks

SODANKYLÄ, Finland — Machine gun fire cracked through the blanketed stillness, followed by the soft poof of pine needles dropping snow. I ducked instinctively, my knees wet in the snow, behind a cluster of five men burrowed between trees. At our front, near the crest of a ridge, one soldier on his belly angled the thin nose of a Finnish assault rifle slightly downward into the frosted woods. Swinging his weapon rightward, he fired another stacca…