Finland to join Nato on Tuesday as Russia sounds border warning
by Jon Henley Europe correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6AED3)
Moscow threatens to bolster border defences if western military alliance deploys troops inside Finland
Russia has said it will bolster its defences near its 1,300km border with Finland after the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, announced that the Nordic country would formally join the transatlantic defence alliance on Tuesday.
The accession marks the end of an accelerated process that began last May, when Finland and neighbouring Sweden abandoned decades of military nonalignment to seek security as Nato members after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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