Finnish President Sauli NiinistöHELSINKI, Feb 24Finnish President Sauli Niinistö ruled out the possibility of the country's reaction to the situation in Ukraine with an immediate application to NATO. «Debates about NATO membership will certainly become more diverse in Finland, which has already become apparent during the debates in Parliament. However, such debates will require a broad parliamentary consensus. As we said in our reports, if Finland's security requires it, Finland has the opportunity to apply for membership. We see comments that apply today, join tomorrow. But this cannot work in the real world,» the president said during the press briefing.
In France, they urged to initiate negotiations on the non-expansion of NATO. The president also stressed that bilateral Russian-Finnish relations would reach a different level. «As for our relations with Russia, yes, this takes them to a different level,» he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier announced that he had decided on a special military operation against Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» The President of the Russian Federation stated that the entire responsibility for the bloodshed would be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine, and called on the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine. According to the agency, military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry clarified that nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation in Donbass is in the online report >>
The United States, expanding NATO, crossed out the agreements of previous years, Volodin saidPosted by: Olga Markova
