A former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group told Reuters he wanted to apologise for fighting in Ukraine and was speaking out to bring the perpetrators of atrocities in the conflict to justice. By Nerijus Adomaitis Janis Laizans and me. reuters.com/world/europe/f…

Andrei Medvedev, a former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, apologized for fighting in Ukraine, saying the brutality he witnessed there ultimately pushed him to defect and flee to Norway reut.rs/3jqCXRL

It's a hot competition at the European Sauna Marathon in Estonia, but it's far from the stereotypical towel-clad Baltic pastime, this competition is carnival-costumed sauna-seeking fun

Another marathon completed 🏃‍♂️

Iryna Filkina was killed in the first days of the war in Ukraine. Filkina was among the dead left untended on the side of the road and photographs taken of her muddy upturned hand, with bright red fingernails, became a potent symbol of civilian suffering reut.rs/3YTIwrh

Picture and it’s story

Latvia began seizing cars from heavily drunk drivers this year, and as hundreds of vehicles began overfilling impound lots, decided to send them to Ukrainian military and hospitals reut.rs/3IVw1EM

Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Ukraine bbc.in/3mH8gZG

A NATO-led exercise simulated a wide-ranging cyber attack on the fictional island nation of 'Berylia' from its neighbor 'Crimsonia.' Critical infrastructure, communications networks, and financial systems were targeted in the exercise

Estonia and Latvia look to purchase mid-range air defence from Germany reut.rs/3MoOyeG

Estonia becomes first central European country to allow same-sex marriage reut.rs/3NDDoEw

High above a railway bridge spanning a foaming river just outside the Arctic Circle, Finnish construction workers hammer away at a project that will smooth the connections from NATO's Atlantic coastline in Norway to its new border with Russia reut.rs/44poW8M

NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect President Joe Biden and other alliance leaders meeting next week, only a few miles away from Lithuania's razor-wire-topped border fence with Russian ally Belarus reut.rs/3O4kJln

NATO has deployed advanced weaponry before alliance leaders meet this week in Vilnius to tackle a wide range of topics, including divisions over Ukraine's membership bid reut.rs/3PUv8Sl

Some stories are difficult to explain

Issam Abdallah, a Reuters videographer was killed while working in southern Lebanon on Friday. Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live video signal reut.rs/495H8rl

On the Baltic Sea, Estonian navy prepared to stop vessels reuters.com/world/europe/b…

My team and I spent 2 weeks in Moldova reporting ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. We found how Russia has persistently tried to influence voters through the Orthodox Church 1/8 w/ Christian Lowe Anton Zverev Janis Laizans Monus Marton reuters.com/investigations…

As US President Donald Trump talks of buying Greenland and Denmark asserts its legal sovereignty, Inuit residents assert an age-old law that says people can own houses, but not the land beneath them reut.rs/3NN2ALp

The story I worked last week at the settlement of Kapisillit in Greenland with Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Janis Laizans. Photo editing by Maye-E Wong and Marta Montaña