Finland holds unprecedented military exercises near Russian border. They involve more than three thousand Finnish soldiers and a wide contingent of NATO soldiers. The exercises are underway under the command of the Alliance and with the participation of the military of the United States, Great Britain, Estonia and Latvia, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The exercises became a kind of response to Moscow, which allowed itself to aggressively threaten Finland " There was also a “flexing of muscles” - Russian military aircraft began to regularly violate the airspace of the Finns and rocket equipment was deployed to the border.

The details of the military exercises are not made public.. More than 3,000 Finnish soldiers and soldiers from the US, UK, Estonia and Latvia are taking part in the two-week Arrow 22 exercise, according to US media reports..

The Finnish army has about 300 thousand army personnel and 900 thousand reservists. It is considered one of the strongest in Europe, and Helsinki may start the procedure for joining NATO in a few weeks.

As a NATO member country, Finland will receive security guarantees provided for in Article 5 of the NATO Statute. It's just that there will be some time between the application and the membership itself.. And it is this moment that worries the Finnish government.. Since Russia may well take advantage of this “window” and attack its neighbor.

Therefore, Finland is building up its combat potential without waiting for admission to NATO. She managed to emerge victorious in the annual and most complex cyber attack simulation in the world, organized by the NATO Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Center. Purchase of 64 Lockheed Martin F-35 military fighters announced to strengthen Finns' air combat capability.

Having occupied a neutral position for a decade, Helsinki immediately sided with Kyiv in the Ukrainian war. Despite a traditional policy of “not providing weapons to war zones,” since the start of the war, Finland has provided Ukraine with thousands of anti-tank weapons, food rations, ammunition — a historic step, as Prime Minister Sanna Marin said..

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Earlier it was reported that the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO will increase stability in the Baltic Sea.