Finland's government has declared a 'new era' is underway as it inches closer to seeking NATO membership. 9News
Finland's government declared a "new era" is underway as it inches closer to seeking NATO membership, hours before Sweden's governing party backed a plan to join the trans-Atlantic alliance amid Russia's war in Ukraine.
Speaking after top diplomats from the alliance's 30 member states met in Berlin, Stoltenberg also expressed his hope that Ukraine could win the war as Russian military advances appear to be faltering. President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin made the announcement at a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki.Ukrainian firefighters work at an apartment building after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The plan to join the alliance will be discussed in Sweden's parliament on Monday, and Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's Cabinet will make an announcement later that day. "Each and every European country has a fundamental right to choose their own security arrangement," Jeppe Kofod told reporters."We see now a world where the enemy of democracy number one is Putin and the thinking that he represents," he said, adding that NATO would also stand with other countries, such as Georgia, which he said were being "instrumentalised" by Russia.
A Ukrainian serviceman patrols during a reconnaissance mission in a recently retaken village on the outskirts of Kharkiv, east Ukraine.
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