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Russia makes nuclear threat to Sweden, Finland over NATO consideration
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Russia must bolster its defenses within the Baltic Sea — together with a possible nuclear escalation — if Sweden and Finland be part of NATO, Moscow stated on Thursday.
“There could be no extra speak of any nuclear-free standing for the Baltic – the stability should be restored,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s safety council and former president of Russia, stated, Reuters reported.
“Till right now, Russia has not taken such measures and was not going to. If our hand is compelled, nicely … take observe it was not us who proposed this,” he added, in keeping with Reuters.
Medvedev’s warning got here as Sweden and Finland appear nearer than ever earlier than to becoming a member of the Western alliance.
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Finland and Sweden’s prime ministers held a joint information convention in Stockholm on Wednesday, with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin saying the nation would determine inside the subsequent few weeks on NATO membership and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson saying her nation is making the identical calculation. Finland shares a major land border with Russia.
Deputy chairman of the Russian Safety Council Dmitry Medvedev speaks throughout a gathering with members of the Safety Council in Moscow on February 21, 2022.
(Photograph by ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Lithuanian Protection Minister Arvydas Anusauskas stated Russia already has nuclear weapons within the space, in keeping with Sky Information.
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“The present Russian threats look fairly unusual after we know that, even with out the current safety state of affairs, they hold the weapon 100 km from Lithuania’s border,” Anusauskas stated. “Nuclear weapons have all the time been stored in Kaliningrad. The worldwide group, the international locations within the area, are completely conscious of this. They use it as a risk.”
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte additionally dismissed the risk.
“That Russia threatens, it’s nothing new,” Simonyte stated Thursday, in keeping with the Impartial. “Kaliningrad is a really militarized zone, has been for a few years, and it’s within the Baltic area.”