Overview
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said any nuclear deployment in Finland would be treated as a threat and promised unspecified countermeasures.
- The government’s draft would allow the introduction, transport, delivery or possession of a nuclear weapon in Finland when tied to national defense.
- Finland’s 1987 nuclear energy law currently prohibits importing, manufacturing, possessing and detonating nuclear explosives.
- The proposal is under consultation until April 2 as the right‑wing parliamentary majority pushes for swift adoption.
- Finnish officials cite a fundamentally deteriorated security environment after Russia’s 2022 invasion and Finland’s 2023 NATO entry, and no deployment has been announced.