Radio | News week in plain Finnish | Sunday 19.1.2025

Baltic Sea security.

The topic of this week’s news is the security of the Baltic Sea. This week, a meeting of the NATO defense alliance was held in Finland. The meeting decided that NATO will monitor the Baltic Sea area more than before. NATO monitors the Baltic Sea with ships and aircraft. The reason is that ships have broken cables in the Baltic Sea.

We will now talk more about the security of the Baltic Sea.

This week, a NATO defense alliance meeting was held in Helsinki. The meeting included NATO countries in the Baltic Sea region. The topic of the meeting was the security of the Baltic Sea.

The meeting was organized because ships are breaking cables in the Baltic Sea. NATO countries suspect that ships are breaking cables in cooperation with Russia. Many ships in poor condition also transport oil to Russia. Therefore, an oil spill could occur in the Baltic Sea.

NATO operation in the Baltic Sea

NATO countries announced at the Helsinki meeting that NATO will launch an operation in the Baltic Sea.

In the future, NATO soldiers will monitor the Baltic Sea more than they do now. The meeting was told that NATO will monitor the Baltic Sea with ships and aircraft. NATO will use new technology to monitor the Baltic Sea.

President Alexander Stubb said that the NATO operation will last weeks or months. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at the meeting that NATO does not accept Russian harassment in the Baltic Sea. Rutte said that a clear message must be sent to Russia on this issue.

The Russian threat

The Finnish military said this week that Russia is not a major military threat to Finland right now. Russia cannot attack Finland because Russia needs soldiers for the war in Ukraine. Russia does not have many soldiers near Finland.

The Russian threat may increase when the war in Ukraine eventually ends. Russia began an aggressive war in Ukraine in February 2022.

Repetition

The topic of the news week was the security of the Baltic Sea. Let’s recap the most important things.

This week, a meeting of NATO countries in the Baltic Sea was held in Helsinki. The meeting announced that NATO will begin an operation in the Baltic Sea. NATO aircraft and ships will monitor the security of the Baltic Sea. NATO suspects that the ships are cutting cables in the Baltic Sea in cooperation with Russia.