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A view of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, 17 April, 2024

Video. Sweden announces new spy agency in rethink prompted by war in Ukraine

Updated: 05/05/2026 - 13:52 GMT+2

Stockholm dropped two centuries of military non-alignment and joined NATO in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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