Finland set to host NATO battle group

The Nordic nation is on track to become the ninth country to host a NATO multinational battle group – battalion-sized forces tasked with defending the military alliance’s eastern flank

Finland responsible for guarding NATO’s longest border with Russia

NATO command Finland
Land force presence (location and strength not revealed)
NATO members*

Jun 14: Finland’s Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen (above) says new NATO force will direct land warfare operations in northern Europe and Scandinavia

SWEDEN

Estonia
1,373
Latvia
1,840
Poland
1,033
Hungary
1,054
Romania
574
Bulgaria
945
TÜRKIYE
ITALY
Baltic Sea

North Sea
DENMARK 
NED
BEL 
FRANCE
NORWAY
UK
PORTUGAL 
SPAIN
GERMANY
GREECE
Mediterranean Sea

500km 
310 miles

RUSSIA
Lithuania
1,805
Moscow
Russian control
BELARUS
Slovakia
1056
UKRAINE 


NATO battle groups
Troop numbers at Nov 2022 

*Includes U.S., Canada and Iceland

Sources: Bloomberg, NATO, Reuters
Picture: Getty Images 
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