Sanna Marin, former Finnish PM, visits heads to Berlin on another trip including visit to Holocaust memorial

Finland's former prime minister Sanna Marin has shared a series of photographs from a visit to Berlin.

Among the photos is one of the city's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which opened in 2005 and is described as 'a place of contemplation, a place of remembrance and warning'.

She also visited the German Health Ministry while in the city. 

The trip follows Sanna giving up politics last September to join the Tony Blair Institute.

As leader of Finland's Social Democrats, Sanna was prime minister between 2019 and 2023 - making her the country's youngest ever PM at the time (a record that has now been broken). She had been a Member of the Finnish Parliament since 2015. 

The series of photos, which has garnered some 61,000 likes and 820 comments in the 20-hours since they were posted, were accompanied by a simple caption.

It simply said: 'Berlin' and was followed by a black heart emoji. 

Her visit comes several weeks after Sanna made a visit to war-torn Ukraine.

Sanna went to Bucha, the site of the mass murder of around 500 Ukrainians at the start of the war in March 2022.

She was in the city with the HALO Trust, which works globally to clear unexploded landmines. In Ukraine, Marin says around 19,000 explosives have been neutralised since the war with Russia began.  

While in the war-torn country, the ex-Finnish PM - who was just 34 when she took office in 2019 - also had a brief return to diplomacy as she met with the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

She said: 'I had the opportunity to engage in numerous discussions about the state of the war, reconstruction, and Ukraine's European future.

'It was also very interesting to visit a humanitarian de-mining site in Bucha, where an international organisation HALO Trust works to make war-torn areas safe safe by clearing landmines and other explosives.'

Dusting off her political hat for a moment, Marin posed for photographs with Mr Shmyhal, and sat down for talks with the Finnish ambassador to Ukraine over lunch.

She said: 'It was a great honour to meet Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko, Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna.

'With more than two years of brutal war, the need for international attention is more crucial than ever. 

'In order to win the war, Ukraine needs even further political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support. Sanctions must be enforced.'   

As Finland's prime minister, Marin was one of Europe's youngest leaders, and oversaw her country's successful application to officially join NATO.

Announcing her resignation from politics, Marin told Finnish broadcaster YLE that it was 'time to move on'.

She said: 'I am eager to step into a new role. I also believe that it can benefit the whole of Finland. 

'I believe that I can serve those voters [in Finland] well and maybe even better in the new assignment'.