https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed NATO ground forces have started operations aimed at boosting defences around Sweden and Finland, two of its newest members, the alliance said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20260607/nato-bolsters-defences-around-sweden-and-finland Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:13:00 +0200 nato-bolsters-defences-around-sweden-and-finland Sweden is training its armed forces on how to run a prisoner of war camp, with 300 mock prisoners held at a former sanatorium in central Sweden during the current Aurora 26 exercise, AFP reports. https://www.thelocal.se/20260506/swedish-troops-drill-handling-prisoners-of-war-in-new-nato-exercise Wed, 06 May 2026 11:46:13 +0200 swedish-troops-drill-handling-prisoners-of-war-in-new-nato-exercise Sweden's government said on Tuesday it would push forward with a plan to form a new spy agency targeting overseas threats, part of a wider reset prompted by Russia's war in Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.se/20260505/sweden-announces-new-spy-agency-in-ukraine-war-reset Tue, 05 May 2026 14:49:14 +0200 sweden-announces-new-spy-agency-in-ukraine-war-reset https://www.thelocal.se/20260227/swedish-minister-says-drone-jammed-near-french-warship-was-probably-russian Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:31:00 +0100 swedish-minister-says-drone-jammed-near-french-warship-was-probably-russian Sweden said on Thursday that it would send fighter jets to patrol Greenland as part of a newly launched NATO mission in the Arctic aimed at placating US President Donald Trump. https://www.thelocal.se/20260213/swedish-fighter-jets-to-patrol-greenland-under-nato-mission Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:36:26 +0100 swedish-fighter-jets-to-patrol-greenland-under-nato-mission Swedish prosecutors said Monday they had closed a probe into a Bulgarian ship that severed a Baltic Sea cable linking Sweden and Latvia in January, ruling it an accident but noting the vessel had several technical faults. https://www.thelocal.se/20251014/sweden-closes-probe-into-latvia-cable-damage Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:58:29 +0200 sweden-closes-probe-into-latvia-cable-damage Sweden will host a Nato logistics headquarters in the town of Enkoping, northwest of Stockholm, to supply troop movements in Northern Europe, the government said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20250821/nato-to-establish-logistics-base-in-sweden Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:13:41 +0200 nato-to-establish-logistics-base-in-sweden Sweden, Norway and Denmark will donate equipment and munitions worth $500 million to Ukraine, under a new scheme to speed deliveries from American stockpiles, Stockholm said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20250805/sweden-norway-and-denmark-to-donate-500m-in-arms-to-ukraine Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:54:56 +0200 sweden-norway-and-denmark-to-donate-500m-in-arms-to-ukraine Sweden is considering calling up former officers as old as 70 to active duty as it seeks to ensure its military is prepared in times of crisis, the defence minister told a press conference. https://www.thelocal.se/20250715/sweden-considers-calling-up-70-year-old-officers-to-active-military-duty Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:33:49 +0200 sweden-considers-calling-up-70-year-old-officers-to-active-military-duty The former US ambassador to Sweden, Erik Ramanathan, is back for the Almedalen political week in Visby. He tells The Local why he thinks Nato countries can still rely on US support despite US President Donald Trump's rhetoric, and why he'll be attending Stockholm Pride. https://www.thelocal.se/20250623/us-nato-support-still-quite-strong-says-former-sweden-ambassador Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:36:06 +0200 us-nato-support-still-quite-strong-says-former-sweden-ambassador Two Swedish fighter jets were scrambled under Nato command to escort away a Russian aircraft over the Baltic sea. https://www.thelocal.se/20250424/swedish-nato-jets-intercept-russian-reconnaissance-plane-over-baltic-sea Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:06:10 +0200 swedish-nato-jets-intercept-russian-reconnaissance-plane-over-baltic-sea Sweden's prime minister warned on the weekend that "freedom comes with a cost", while the country's finance minister promised "a modern Swedish war economy". But is the government ready to spend what it takes to enable Sweden to defend itself? https://www.thelocal.se/20250319/is-swedens-government-ready-to-bring-in-a-modern-war-economy Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:48:34 +0100 is-swedens-government-ready-to-bring-in-a-modern-war-economy Sweden is willing to send troops to serve as peacekeepers in Ukraine, so long as US security guarantees are in place, the country's prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.se/20250303/swedish-pm-willing-to-send-peacekeepers-to-ukraine Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:13:00 +0100 swedish-pm-willing-to-send-peacekeepers-to-ukraine European leaders are reeling from from the new US administration's statements on Ukraine, European defence, and European politics, so how are politicians in Sweden positioning themselves for President Donald Trump's new world order? https://www.thelocal.se/20250220/ice-in-the-stomach-swedish-politicians-react-to-trumps-new-world-order Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:04:35 +0100 ice-in-the-stomach-swedish-politicians-react-to-trumps-new-world-order Joakim Paasikivi, the retired Lieutenant Colonel who is one of Sweden's leading defence commentators, tells The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange why he thinks Russia is behind the spate of cable sabotage over the last few months. https://www.thelocal.se/20250130/i-think-its-the-russians-swedish-defence-expert-on-cable-sabotage Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:41:12 +0100 i-think-its-the-russians-swedish-defence-expert-on-cable-sabotage Another undersea cable has been broken in the Baltic Sea, this time between Swedish Gotland and Ventspils in Latvia. What do we know about the suspected sabotage? https://www.thelocal.se/20250127/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-latest-baltic-sea-cable-damage Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:17:41 +0100 what-we-know-so-far-about-the-latest-baltic-sea-cable-damage Sweden is for the first time set to send troops to Nato from the start of 2025. https://www.thelocal.se/20241007/historic-decision-swedens-role-in-natos-deterrence-and-defence-in-2025 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:09:12 +0200 historic-decision-swedens-role-in-natos-deterrence-and-defence-in-2025 Sweden is willing to manage a future Nato land force in neighbouring Finland, which shares a border with Russia, the two newest members of the military alliance announced on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20240916/sweden-prepared-to-manage-nato-land-force-in-finland Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:42:12 +0200 sweden-prepared-to-manage-nato-land-force-in-finland Sweden's foreign minister Tobias Billström has announced that he is resigning his position and leaving politics. https://www.thelocal.se/20240904/swedens-foreign-minister-tobias-billstrom-to-step-down-and-leave-politics Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:00:53 +0200 swedens-foreign-minister-tobias-billstrom-to-step-down-and-leave-politics Sweden has called for Nato to step up efforts on China as a way to ensure support from the United States, where presidential candidate Donald Trump has loudly criticized the alliance. https://www.thelocal.se/20240710/sweden-asks-nato-to-focus-more-on-china-to-win-us-support Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:48:00 +0200 sweden-asks-nato-to-focus-more-on-china-to-win-us-support