Sweden officially announces NATO bid—comes a day after Finnish President Sauli Niinisto announced his country’s intention to also join the alliance. Here's how the Kremlin is reacting to these latest developments:
Speaking at a meeting in Moscow earlier Monday with several Kremlin-aligned leaders, Putin said Sweden and Finland joining NATO would “certainly provoke our response” according to Reuters’Finland and Sweden’s NATO bids break a long history of neutrality for the Nordic countries in a move that would add a significant land border between Russia and the military alliance and represent a major fallout from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine that Putin said was due to NATO’s increasing eastern...
Putin did not specify Monday what Russia may do should its Nordic neighbors join NATO, saying Russia “will see what threats are created for us," according to Reuters. Though Putin didn’t say Monday, the Kremlin has previously suggested it may respond to Finland and Sweden’s NATO potential accession with nuclear weapons.
Last month, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council,Russia may deploy nuclear weapons in the Baltic Sea should Finland and Sweden join NATO—and a presenter on the state-run Russia-1 television station said Sunday Russia will have “no choice” but to deploy nuclear weapons to “neutralize” the threat, according to the BBC’sPutin said Monday he has “no problem” with Finland and Sweden and that the two joining NATO doesn’t pose a “direct...
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