PHOTO JONATHAN NACKSTRAND, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A soldier from the Gotland P18 Regiment covers her face in paint during a field exercise near Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland on Tuesday. Finland and Sweden on Wednesday submitted formal requests to join NATO, which could rewrite the map of European security in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. This is a turnaround for Stockholm and Helsinki, which have not been aligned for decades.