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Russia is likely to suspend electricity supplies to Finland this weekend as Helsinki seems adamant about pursuing its ambitious bid of joining the US-led NATO military alliance amid the raging war in Ukraine.
Security experts have warned that further confrontation between the West and Russia seems inevitable as Finland looks set to become the 31st member of the NATO military alliance.
Moscow has denounced Finland’s bid to join US-led NATO as a hostile move, warning that the drive would “definitely” pose a threat to Russia.
Finland's leaders say they are in favor of applying for NATO membership "without delay," apparently prompted by Russia's military offensive against Ukraine.
Iran’s President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has expressed the country’s categorical opposition to the expansionist policies of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Europe.
Moscow has denounced the West for preventing a “quick” end to Russia’s military operation in neighboring Ukraine by providing Kiev with weapons.
Turkey will not participate in NATO’s annual drills in Greece next month, security sources say, amid a simmering standoff between Ankara and Athens over sea boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean.
Finland and Sweden will be welcomed to NATO with open arms and their accession process will expectedly take place quickly if they decide to join the Western military alliance, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says.
A retired US Army general has been designated to help coordinate the massive shipment of American weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, the White House has announced.
Russian forces have seized control of the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the area, as Moscow launches a new phase of its military offensive in the former Soviet republic.