Finnish President Alexander Stubb says that joining the NATO alliance a year ago has transformed his country into a “front-line state,” given that it has doubled the military bloc’s border with Russia.

The Interior Department finalized a rule limiting future oil and gas development across 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that Finland’s decision to close its border crossings with Russia over a surge in migrants is a security matter for the whole 27-member bloc to consider.

Pacific Skies, a series of exercises between mid-June and mid-August, will involve 1,800 airmen and aircraft from Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, Germany’s air force said in a news release Tuesday.

The shifting politics of presidential administrations, congressional majorities and public lobbying have warped the system for deciding who or what gets the honor of a name on a ship or submarine.

If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A decorated hero of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his friend and fellow soldier to please aim carefully and avoid bone. The tourniquets were ready.

A draft peace agreement that Russia and Ukraine negotiated in the early days of the conflict could serve as a starting point for talks to end the fighting, the Kremlin said Friday, reviving a proposal that Ukraine had rejected.

Behind the scenes with Navy SEALs and Green Berets as the Pentagon, wary of war with Russia or China, stress-tested its Arctic readiness.

Adm. Stephen Koehler, a naval aviator and former commander of 3rd Fleet, assumed command of U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony Thursday in Hawaii. The fleet consists of about 200 ships, 1,500 aircraft and 150,000 uniformed and civilian personnel.

One of the U.S. military’s newest intelligence drones has arrived in Europe as part of the only Navy unmanned patrol squadron’s second detachment.