“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 NATO.
On Saturday, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted a Russian Foreign Ministry official as saying that the accession of Sweden and Finland 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.
Some members of NATO, especially the United States, were accused of trying 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 in Finland and Sweden have shown an increase in support for the idea of joining NATO.
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