প্রকাশ: 30/06/2022
President Vladimir
Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would respond in kind if NATO deployed
troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the US-led
military alliance.
"With Sweden and Finland, we don't have the problems
that we have with Ukraine. They want to join NATO, go ahead," Putin told
Russian state television after talks with regional leaders in the central Asian
ex-Soviet state of Turkmenistan.
"But they must understand there was no threat before,
while now if military contingents and infrastructure are deployed there, we
will have to respond in kind and create the same threats for the territories
from which threats towards us are created."
He said it was inevitable that Moscow's relations with
Helsinki and Stockholm would sour over their NATO membership.
"Everything was fine between us, but now there might be
some tensions, there certainly will," he said. "It's inevitable if
there is a threat to us."
Putin made his comment a day after NATO member Turkey lifted
its veto over the bid by Finland and Sweden to join the alliance after the
three nations agreed to protect each other's security.
The move means Helsinki and Stockholm can proceed with their
application to join NATO, marking the biggest shift in European security in
decades.
Putin added that the objectives of what Moscow calls its
"special military operation" in Ukraine remained unchanged, that its
goal was to "liberate" eastern Ukraine's Donbas region and create
conditions to ensure Russia's security.
He said Russian troops had advanced in Ukraine and that the
military intervention was going as planned. There was no need, he said, to set
a deadline for an end to the campaign.
- Reuters
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