On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Sweden and Finland joining NATO would pose no threat to Russia, but that sending soldiers or weapons to the Nordic neighbours would prompt a “reaction.”
Out of dread of becoming next, Helsinki and Stockholm are set to abandon decades of military non-alignment as Moscow presses its attack in Ukraine’s eastern border regions over three months into its invasion.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday that her nation would apply to join NATO, a day after Finland, which shares a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) border with Russia, announced the same thing.
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