Russian officials on May 12 threatened to take action if Finland is successful in its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
“Finland joining NATO will seriously harm bilateral Russian-Finnish relations and the maintenance of stability and security in the North European region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to state-run media.
“Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps both of military-technical and of other nature in order to stop the threats to its national security that emerge as a result,” the ministry added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that Russian leaders were developing ways “to strengthen our western flanks in connection with the strengthening of NATO’s eastern flank.”
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