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NATO launches Arctic manoeuvres, vowing to protect newest member Finland

  By [14]Anne Kauranen (BUTTON)
  May 30, 20233:49 PM UTCUpdated ago
  Finland hosts its first military exercise as a NATO member in the High
  North above the Arctic Circle
  Finland hosts its first military exercise as a NATO member in the High
  North above the Arctic Circle
  Finland hosts its first military exercise as a NATO member in the High
  North above the Arctic Circle
  Finland hosts its first military exercise as a NATO member in the High
  North above the Arctic Circle
  Finland hosts its first military exercise as a NATO member in the High
  North above the Arctic Circle
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  ROVAJARVI, Finland, May 30 (Reuters) - NATO countries are in the middle
  of Arctic military manoeuvres, vowing on Tuesday to defend their newest
  member, Finland, which is hosting its first joint NATO exercise since
  becoming the 31st member of the Western alliance in April.

  The addition of Finland doubles the length of the border NATO shares
  with Russia, which launched a large-scale invasion of another
  neighbour, Ukraine, in February last year.

  Nearly 1,000 allied forces from the United States, Britain and Norway,
  and also from neighbouring Sweden, joined some 6,500 Finnish troops and
  some 1,000 vehicles for the Northern Forest exercise, Finland's biggest
  modern-time land force drill above the Arctic Circle.

  Russia's invasion of Ukraine convinced Sweden and Finland last year to
  ditch long-held policies of military non-alignment and seek security of
  NATO's collective defence commitment.

  Finland formally joined on April 4, drawing a threat from Moscow of
  "counter-measures". [15]Sweden hopes to be a member by the time of the
  alliance's summit in Vilnius in July.

  Overseeing the exercise just a two-hour drive from the Russian border
  at one of Europe's largest artillery training grounds in Rovajarvi,
  northern Finland, Major General Gregory Anderson from the 10th Mountain
  Division of the U.S. Army said his country stood ready to defend
  Finland.

  "We are here, we are committed. The U.S. Army is here training with our
  newest NATO ally to build that capability, to help defend Finland if
  anything happened," Anderson said.

  His troops practised on the ground with their Multiple Launch Rocket
  Systems shipped from Germany, while their Finnish counterparts fired
  their Leopard 2A6 tanks, the Swedes and the Norwegians fired from CV90
  infantry fighting vehicles and the UK troops deployed Warrior tanks.

  Sweden remains Finland's closest military partner and is also both
  politically and tactically ready to defend its Nordic neighbour, the
  commander of the Swedish land forces said.

  "It's of no question at all. We have prepared plans on what to do if we
  are to be part of the defence of Finland," Major General Karl
  Engelbrektson said.

  Ilmari Laukkanen, a 20-year-old Finnish conscript who operated a field
  gun in the exercise but in his civilian life works at a family farm
  near the Russian border, said he would be ready to fight for Finland's
  new allies if needs be.

  "Of course I would. If we are given something good then we give in
  return," Laukkanen told Reuters.

  Thea Rimmereid, 21, from Norway's northern Porsanger Battalion, when
  asked if she felt ready to defend Finland said she had only been in the
  military for 13 months.

  "But we will do the best if we need to," Rimmereid said.

  Exercise leader Colonel Janne Makitalo said NATO allies should be
  cautious about drawing quick conclusions on their military procurement
  needs from the footage they see from Ukraine.

  "Russia is currently able to destroy, on a monthly basis, about 10,000
  Ukrainian UAVs (uncrewed aerial vehicles)," Makitalo said.

  Expensive technological solutions might look good on YouTube, he said,
  but they can be easily detectable in a real war situation.

  The exercises run from May 27 to June 2.
  Reporting by Anne Kauranen; Editing by Nick Macfie
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