On Saturday, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russian Foreign Ministry He said that Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO would have serious military and political consequences.
This situation will require Russia to take "retaliatory measures"However, he did not specify what it is.
Due diligence charges NATO membersespecially the United States, to try to persuade the two non-aligned Scandinavian countries to join the military alliance.
Moscow has repeatedly warned Finland and Sweden that Moscow will consider their accession to NATO – if it is already completed – a hostile act. Which is ignored by both countries.
Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine Opinion polls showed Finland and Sweden Ascending to support the idea of joining NATO.
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“Russia has nothing to do with our independent decisions,” Foreign Minister Anne Linde told Swedish news agency TT on Saturday, referring to Stockholm’s possible move to join the EU. NATO.
On Saturday, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russian Foreign Ministry He said that Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO would have serious military and political consequences.
This situation will require Russia to take “retaliatory measures”, said Sergey Belyaev, head of the Nordic countries department in the Russian Foreign Ministry, but did not specify what they were.
Due diligence charges NATO membersespecially the United States, to try to persuade the two non-aligned Scandinavian countries to join the military alliance.
Moscow has repeatedly warned Finland and Sweden that Moscow will consider their accession to NATO – if it is already completed – a hostile act. Which is ignored by both countries.
Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine Opinion polls showed Finland and Sweden Ascending to support the idea of joining NATO.