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Drone attack 40 miles from Sweden - Kristersson and the President of Finland have been heard

Ukraine says it carried out a drone attack on the Russian air base Olenja on the Kola Peninsula on Saturday. The base is only 40 miles from Swedish soil, writes Expressen.

The place is even closer to Norway and Finland - and the attack is therefore also noticed there. Finnish President Alexander Stubb tells Ilta-Sanomat that there is no cause for concern.

- We have the situation under control and can react.

Stubb has been in contact with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M), who shares the view.

"The prime minister shares the Finnish president's basic message that there is no cause for concern. We have war in our immediate area and we follow developments very closely," writes Kristersson's deputy press manager Susan Vo Bergqvist to Expressen.

The information about the attack comes from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. However, these are not confirmed by any independent party. According to the Barents Observer news site, this is the first attack within the Arctic Circle since the war broke out in February 2022.

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Sources: Mysterious plan prompted Russia to warn US

On July 12, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov called his American counterpart Lloyd Austin and issued a warning, three sources told the New York Times.

The Russians have reportedly discovered a secret Ukrainian operation under way, which it was suspected had the blessing of the United States. According to the sources, the Pentagon was surprised by the allegations because it was not aware of any such operation.

But Belousov's warning, and the information he presented, was nevertheless taken so seriously that the United States contacted Ukraine with the request not to carry out the described action. Whether Ukraine really had a secret plan, and what the action consisted of in such cases, is still unknown.

The newspaper describes the data as a rare insight into a sensitive conversation between the United States and Russia. In official statements, platitudes are mostly spread about the content of the talks, but the data shows how much more there can be under the surface and that the countries are actively trying to avoid escalation, the newspaper writes.