A video featuring some statements made by citizens about joining NATO.
In just a couple of days, 1,591 Finns had given their statements to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' statement service WITH STRONG IDENTIFICATION, of which 98% were absolutely against the Nato project and demanded its immediate halt.
Some also demanded a referendum on the matter.
There is no mandate or approval from the people for the unilateral Nato project of the government of Sauli Niinistö and Sanna Marin, and there never was.
- The Nato project is completely illegal.
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Russia’s Yasen-Class Submarine Is a Problem
for the U.S. Navy
Key Points and Summary: The Russian Yasen-M class submarine Kazan showcased its reach and audacity by docking in Havana, Cuba, in June, signaling a challenge to U.S. naval dominance.
-The nuclear-powered cruise missile sub, supported by a Russian flotilla, demonstrated Russia’s blue-water navy ambitions. Armed with advanced Oniks, Kalibr, and potentially Zircon missiles, the Kazan represents a threat to NATO coastlines and American shores.
-Enhanced with a quieter reactor and advanced sonar systems, the Kazan rivals the U.S. Navy’s submarines in stealth and capability. This provocative deployment highlights Russia’s evolving strategy for its Yasen-class subs and underscores NATO’s growing concerns.
Russia’s Yasen-Class Submarines:
A New Threat Near U.S. Shores
You better believe Russian submarines can venture across the Atlantic and dock in Havana, Cuba close to American shores. The Russian navy accomplished this feat by sending one of its most modern attack subs to the Caribbean in June. This was a real stick in the eye to the U.S. military and likely had the Navy in fits. Vladimir Putin is showing the world that he can deploy vessels of a Blue Water navy anywhere, anytime.
Let’s take a closer look at the submarine that pulled off the Cuba deployment.
Meet the Yasen-Class from Russia
The Project 885M Yasen-class Kazan nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine is a gem of a boat that the United States has been concerned about for years.
The Kazan and its sister subs of the Yasen-class consist of fast attack capabilities with an impressive range.
Putin is using it to send a message to America that he will not stand by idly as the Pentagon continues to supply the Ukrainians with modern land warfare weaponry.
The Kazan was joined by three other vessels on its voyage to Cuba. The missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, an oil tanker, and a salvage tug made the journey, so the Americans tracked the flotilla the whole time. The Kazan was not believed to carry nuclear missiles.
Yasen-Class Submarine. Image Credit: Russian Federation.
Background of the Yasen-class
Russia began work on the Yasen-class during the Cold War, and the first type became operational in 2013 with the commissioning of the Severodvinsk. The Kazan is actually part of the updated Yasen-M class. It can carry modern weapons such as the Oniks and Kalibr cruise missiles and, some day, the new hypersonic Zircon missiles.
New Offensive Concept for the
Cruise Missile Boats
The deployment to Cuba is a wholesale change for the Yasen-class as these boats were meant to protect sea lines of communication for Russian ships. They are indeed fast attack subs but not known to lead their own flotilla in the manner that they exhibited in June. This shows that commanders of Putin’s navy have bigger plans for the Yasen-class, and they are not concerned with causing another Cuban Missile Crisis.
Yes, They Have Done It Before
The Yasen-class boats have made some patrols off the eastern shores of the United States, but the surfacing in Cuba is notable for its audacity and public relations boost for the Russian navy. This shows that Russia could someday fire land-attack cruise missiles at American targets on the East Coast.
Has the Yasen-class Reached Parity
with American Subs?
One American general believes the Yasen-class is “on par” with similar subs in the U.S. fleet. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, the former chief of U.S. Northern Command said that “the Russian subs are holding the United States at risk in some of their patrol areas.”
Russian shipbuilders were careful with the Kazan, taking a slow and steady pace with an eight-year production period. Moscow lacked money after the Cold War and tightened the budget for new submarines.
NATO Should Be Worried
Russia usually specializes in traditional “hunter-killer” subs. Now, the Yasen-class can be used for shore attack missions with the ability to come close to North America. This also means NATO navies will have to face the fact that the Yasen class will not just serve to interdict shipping in sea lanes but will also threaten northern European coastlines.
New Reactor and Sonar
The Kazan has a fourth-generation KTP-6 monoblock reactor, quieter than the previous boats before the Yasen-M upgrade. This noise cancellation will give the Kazan even more ability to evade enemy efforts to detect it.
The Kazan also has improved sonar with the conformal array system, which is more powerful than other earlier Yasen-Class boats. This system is similar to the best sonars in advanced NATO subs.
About the Author: Dr. Brent M. Eastwood
Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, is the author of Don’t Turn Your Back On the World: a Conservative Foreign Policy and Humans, Machines, and Data: Future Trends in Warfare, plus two other books. Brent was the founder and CEO of a tech firm that predicted world events using artificial intelligence. He served as a legislative fellow for U.S. Senator Tim Scott and advised the senator on defense and foreign policy issues. He has taught at American University, George Washington University, and George Mason University. Brent is a former U.S. Army Infantry officer. He can be followed on X @BMEastwood.
Defense, Military, NotHome, Russian Navy, Submarines, U.S. Navy, Yasen, Yasen-class
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2024/12/russias-yasen-class-submarine-is-a-problem-for-the-us-navy/
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Yet, as the incident showed, this submarine was able to operate undetected so close to the USS Gerald R. Ford, raising uncomfortable questions for the US Navy
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Massive NATO show of force in Nordic region sends message to Russia
THE NORTH SEA: The Barents Observer was aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford on Wednesday as fighter jets took off for exercise bombing missions from the North Sea to the southern coast of Finland. The show of force follows a recent mission by the aircraft carrier to deter Russia inside the Arctic Circle.
The bombing mission is the first time fighter jets have flown from an aircraft carrier in the North Sea to reach a target at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea.
"We can fly the F-18s 1,000 miles (1,600 km), and even longer with aerial refuelling. No problem to reach Finland," said Capt. David J. Dartez, commander of the Air Wing Eight which is attached to the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. We spoke to the commander in the ready room, the compartment just below the flight deck where aircrew conduct their pre-flight and post-flight briefs.
On the wall next to the board are two hand-pointers; one with an F/A-18, the other with a Sukhoi Su-27. There are few doubts about who the adversary is.
After delivering the bombs to the Hästö-Busö exercise area in Finland, the F/A-18s returned to the aircraft carrier. The mission was an integrated part of NATO's Neptune Strike enhanced vigilance activity involving sailors, soldiers, aviators, and marines from 13 nations.
Although planned for a long time, the timing of the NATO drill was opportune. Russian aircraft have repeatedly violated the airspace of their Nordic and Baltic neighbours, actions NATO said are "part of a wider pattern of increasingly irresponsible Russian behaviour."
In parallel events not necessarily linked in response to NATO's Neptune Strike, there have been drone sightings over several days, affecting airports and military installations in Denmark. Authorities said a "professional actor" was responsible.
With a special focus on the Nordic-Baltic region, the Neptune Strike is designed to demonstrate NATO’s ability to integrate high-end maritime strike capabilities, strengthen deterrence, and ensure freedom of navigation across critical waterways.
Other parts of Neptune Strike took place in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. For NATO, bolstering the eastern flank is a priority.
Norwegian military officials told the Barents Observer that the security up North is closely linked with what happens in the Baltic region.
Despite concerns in Europe about Donald Trump's commitment to NATO's mutual defence clause, the United States military is very much present in the Nordic region. When the USS Gerald R. Ford sailed into the Oslo fjord in the spring of 2023, it was the first U.S. aircraft carrier to visit Norway in 65 years. In 2024, the USS Harry S. Truman made a similar visit and in September this year, the USS Gerald R. Ford again visited Oslo after a deployment to the waters outside northern Norway.
The carrier strike group's operations in the Norwegian- and Barents Seas followed a larger Russian Northern Fleet manoeuver and came ahead of the joint Belarus-Russia Zapad-2025 (West-2025) strategic exercise this fall. Simultaneously as the Gerald R. Ford conducted joint activities with Norway and other NATO allies outside Lofoten and Tromsø, all three Northern Fleet Yasen-class multipurpose submarines were at sea.
Russia also sent long-range military planes to outside Norway.
"NATO has chosen a provocative course by intensifying its member states' military activities in the High North," Moscow's Embassy in Oslo said in a statement posted on Facebook, a social media platformed banned inside Russia.
The Embassy said that Norway and NATO's exercises "increase tension and pose a risk of further escalation of the military situation in the region."
Air wing commander Dartez confirmed to the Barents Observer that Russian maritime aircraft indeed approached the aircraft carrier when it was outside northern Norway.
"Norway’s F-35 did a fantastic job, they were called to intercept that maritime aircraft right away and there was a very successful handoff by the Norwegian F-35s to our F-18s when the maritime aircraft came and flew around the strike group," Capt. Dartez said.
He said that any possible picture the Russian planes could take would include at least one F/A-18 in it.
"We had custody of them the entire time. They did not get within any range without us on the wing," the commander said.
Despite concerns in Europe about Donald Trump's commitment to NATO's mutual defence clause, the United States military is very much present in the Nordic region. When the USS Gerald R. Ford sailed into the Oslo fjord in the spring of 2023, it was the first U.S. aircraft carrier to visit Norway in 65 years. In 2024, the USS Harry S. Truman made a similar visit and in September this year, the USS Gerald R. Ford again visited Oslo after a deployment to the waters outside northern Norway.
The carrier strike group's operations in the Norwegian- and Barents Seas followed a larger Russian Northern Fleet manoeuver and came ahead of the joint Belarus-Russia Zapad-2025 (West-2025) strategic exercise this fall. Simultaneously as the Gerald R. Ford conducted joint activities with Norway and other NATO allies outside Lofoten and Tromsø, all three Northern Fleet Yasen-class multipurpose submarines were at sea.
Russia also sent long-range military planes to outside Norway.
"NATO has chosen a provocative course by intensifying its member states' military activities in the High North," Moscow's Embassy in Oslo said in a statement posted on Facebook, a social media platformed banned inside Russia.
The Embassy said that Norway and NATO's exercises "increase tension and pose a risk of further escalation of the military situation in the region."
Air wing commander Dartez confirmed to the Barents Observer that Russian maritime aircraft indeed approached the aircraft carrier when it was outside northern Norway.
"Norway’s F-35 did a fantastic job, they were called to intercept that maritime aircraft right away and there was a very successful handoff by the Norwegian F-35s to our F-18s when the maritime aircraft came and flew around the strike group," Capt. Dartez said.
He said that any possible picture the Russian planes could take would include at least one F/A-18 in it.
"We had custody of them the entire time. They did not get within any range without us on the wing," the commander said.
NATO’s Article 4 has been invoked two times in September. First after Russian drones entered Polish airspace, and the second time after three armed Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated Estonian airspace for more than 10 minutes.
“Russia bears full responsibility for these actions, which are escalatory, risk miscalculation and endanger lives. They must stop,” the North Atlantic Council said in a statement shortly after.
The Alliance noted that violations of air space had taken place in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Romania as well. For Norwegians, the NATO statement came as a surprise as officials in Oslo had previously not informed the public about three violations in the Varanger region by Russian planes earlier this spring and summer.
The region borders with the Kola Peninsula, home to a substantial part of Moscow’s nuclear weapons, including ballistic missiles and tactical nukes designed for Navy cruise missiles.
NATO said its response to Russia's "reckless actions" will continue to be robust.
"Russia should be in no doubt: NATO and Allies will employ, in accordance with international law, all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions."
Several European diplomats warned Moscow this week that they are prepared to shoot down Russian planes if severe intentional air space violations continue. Also, Donald Trump this week said he supports NATO nations shooting down Russian aircraft that enter their airspace.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov denounced the statements, calling them “irresponsible and reckless.”
Meanwhile, Russia has over the past weeks expanded its strikes with drones and cruise missiles, targeting several regions of Ukraine. Moscow shows no intension to end the brutal war it started by its own choice.
In its statement condemning Russia's air space violations, NATO made clear its allies will "not be deterred by these and other irresponsible acts by Russia from their enduring commitments to support Ukraine, whose security contributes to ours, in the exercise of its inherent right to self-defence against Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war of aggression."
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who attended the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, said Moscow is in a "real war" with Europe and NATO, state-owned propaganda agency TASS reported.
"A clear example is the crisis in Ukraine, provoked by the collective West, through which NATO and the European Union want to declare, in fact, have already declared a real war on my country and are directly participating in it," Lavrov said.
https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/massive-nato-show-of-force-in-nordic-region-sends-message-to-russia/437892
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Finnish Navy led coalition fire support on the Finnish coast
Neptune Strike demonstrated NATO's strike capability in the Baltic Sea region
This week, Finnish Navy has carried out NATO's Neptune Strike enhanced Vigilance Activity in the northern Baltic Sea with the USS Bainbridge, the corvette HMS Helsingborg, and the FGS Hamburg, which is part of NATO's Standing Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1).
On Wednesday, September 24, F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters led by the USS Gerald Ford, an aircraft carrier operating in the North Sea, carried out their first bombing missions from the North Sea to the southern coast of Finland, led by Finnish Navy JTAC -teams.
In addition, MH60R Seahawk helicopters from the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge, operating in the Baltic Sea, fired Hellfire missiles and machine guns.
Both fire support missions took place in the Hästö-Busö exercise area in Raseborg.
- Both successful operations demonstrated effective cooperation and the strike capability of the alliance in Finland and our neighboring areas. This was a very concrete demonstration of how NATO's collective defense adds depth to our defense and increases our modern strike capability, says Commodore Marko Laaksonen, Chief of Operations of the Finnish Navy.
Neptune Strike is a large-scale maritime readiness activity series (eVA - enhanced Vigilance Activity) led by NATO's Naval Striking and Support Forces (STRIKFORNATO), the third part of this year’s series (NEST 25-3) was conducted this week in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.
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Finnish Defense Forces Firings and Noise
Firings and noise
- 04.10.2025–10.10.2025Pahkajärvi, Kouvola
- 06.10.2025–09.10.2025Kerttuvaara, Inari
- 06.10.2025–09.10.2025Huovinrinne, Säkylä, Köyliö, Huittinen
- 06.10.2025–10.10.2025Syndalen, Hanko
- 06.10.2025–10.10.2025Hästö-Busö, Raseborg, Gulf of Finland
- 06.10.2025–10.10.2025Pohjankangas, Niinisalo
- 06.10.2025–10.10.2025Hätilä, Hämeenlinna
- 07.10.2025–11.10.2025Upinniemi, Gulf of Finland
- 07.10.2025–09.10.2025Pohjankangas, Kankaanpää
- 07.10.2025–09.10.2025Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki
- 07.10.2025–10.10.2025Vattajanniemi, Lohtaja
- 08.10.2025–10.10.2025Pattskär and Jussarö, Raseborg, Gulf of Finland
- 08.10.2025–09.10.2025Helsinki: Karhusaari
- 09.10.2025–09.10.2025Örö, Archipelago Sea
- 10.10.2025–10.10.2025Santahamina, Gulf of Finland
- 10.10.2025–10.10.2025Santahamina, Helsinki
- 10.10.2025–19.10.2025Vattajanniemi, Lohtaja
- 10.10.2025–10.10.2025Kerttuvaara, Inari
- 13.10.2025–16.10.2025Kerttuvaara, Inari
- 13.10.2025–18.10.2025Vuosanka, Kuhmo
- 13.10.2025–17.10.2025Syndalen, Hanko
- 13.10.2025–13.10.2025Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto, Gulf of Finland
- 13.10.2025–18.10.2025Hätilä, Hämeenlinna
- 13.10.2025–17.10.2025Santahamina, Helsinki
- 13.10.2025–17.10.2025Santahamina, Gulf of Finland
- 14.10.2025–17.10.2025Pohjankangas, Niinisalo
- 14.10.2025–24.10.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
- 14.10.2025–16.10.2025Hälvälä, Hollola
- 14.10.2025–17.10.2025Huovinrinne, Säkylä
- 15.10.2025–18.10.2025Upinniemi, Bay of Finland
- 20.10.2025–24.10.2025Pohjankangas, Niinisalo
- 20.10.2025–24.10.2025Santahamina, Gulf of Finland
- 20.10.2025–24.10.2025Santahamina, Gulf of Finland
- 20.10.2025–25.10.2025Pahkajärvi, Kouvola
- 20.10.2025–24.10.2025Taipalsaari
- 21.10.2025–25.10.2025Vuosanka, Kuhmo
- 21.10.2025–21.10.2025Kassunkuru, Kajaani
- 22.10.2025–23.10.2025Upinniemi, Bay of Finland
- 22.10.2025–23.10.2025Kassunkuru, Kajaani
- 25.10.2025–25.10.2025Vattajanniemi, Lohtaja
- 25.10.2025–26.10.2025Huovinrinne, Säkylä
- 27.10.2025–31.10.2025Vuosanka, Kuhmo
- 28.10.2025–31.10.2025Vattajaniemi, Lohtaja
- 29.10.2025–29.10.2025Kassunkuru, Kajaani
- 03.11.2025–07.11.2025Hätilä, Hämeenlinna
- 03.11.2025–07.11.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
- 03.11.2025–07.11.2025Vattajanniemi, Lohtaja
- 04.11.2025–06.11.2025Santahamina, Gulf of Finland
- 04.11.2025–06.11.2025Santahamina, Helsinki
- 08.11.2025–16.11.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
- 17.11.2025–23.11.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
- 18.11.2025–25.11.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
- 25.11.2025–27.11.2025Lupinmäki, Hamina
- 27.11.2025–29.11.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
- 30.11.2025–05.12.2025Rovajärvi, Kemijärvi, Suomi
https://puolustusvoimat.fi/en/current-issues/firings-and-noise
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'Vox populi, vox Dei'
— Graviola Finland (@GraviolaDOTfi) November 28, 2022
The people of #Finland were completely shocked by the #MinistryOfJustice's statements about joining #NATO | 24/11/2022
1,591 statements were made and with a few exceptions, all of the statements were highly critical of joining NATOhttps://t.co/UBgORCTVeN pic.twitter.com/52Wms6mVPO
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