Why Putin faces ‘more NATO’ in the Arctic after Ukraine invasion
ROBIN EMMOTT, ESSI LEHTO and SIMON JOHNSON THE sound of gunfire echoed around the Norwegian fjords as a row of Swedish and Finnish soldiers, positioned prone behind banks of snow, trained rifles and missile launchers on nearby hills ready for an enemy attack. The drill, in March, was the first time forces from Finland and Sweden have formed a combined brigade in a scheduled NATO exercise in Arctic Norway known as "Cold Response." Neither country is a member of the NATO alliance. The exercise was long-planned, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24 added intensity to the war game.…