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Russia should worry about Nato’s enlargement in Northern Europe
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Finnish military soldiers raising the Finnish national flag at the Nato headquarters in Brussels on April 4, 2023.
PHOTO: AFP
LONDON – Russia has warned that it will respond with military and political measures after Finland, its northern European neighbour, became the 31st member of Nato, the United States-led military organisation.
Reacting to the first formal Finnish flag-raising ceremony at Nato’s headquarters in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Tuesday afternoon, Russia’s Foreign Ministry claimed that by joining the military alliance, Finland “has finally renounced its self-identity and any independence”.