Conscripts at the Parola Armoured Brigade were served expired food on 30 September, according to Iltalehti. The conscript said there was no replacement food available, leaving soldiers with the choice of eating the expired meal or going without food. “The meal in question was a lentil risotto. The product’s best-before date was 24 August 2026. […]

A 23-year-old conscript serving with Finland’s Kainuu Brigade has been convicted of two counts of desertion after spending a combined 574 days absent without permission. He initially failed to return from leave on 3 April 2024 and remained away for 448 days, until police detained him on 25 June 2025 and returned him to the […]

A Finnish conscript at the Pori Brigade’s Säkylä garrison escaped from his barracks during the night by climbing out of a window on a makeshift rope apparently constructed from sheets and towels. Video circulating on social media shows him descending from at least the second floor — roughly six metres — before running away into […]

Finland is changing how it trains conscripts in response to lessons from Ukraine, with soldiers spending less time in classrooms and increasingly dispersing in the field to reduce their vulnerability to drones. Yle reports that reconnaissance troops now sometimes sleep individually under camouflage nets rather than together in heated tents, whose stoves produce a thermal […]