Article 60X7D Putin issues fresh warning to Finland and Sweden on installing Nato infrastructure

Putin issues fresh warning to Finland and Sweden on installing Nato infrastructure

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Andrew Roth
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President says Moscow would respond symmetrically' to any deployments, and foreign ministry accuses Nato of trying to destabilise Russian society

Vladimir Putin has issued fresh warnings that Russia would respond in kind if Nato set up military infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they joined the US-led alliance.

Putin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying he could not rule out that tensions would emerge in Moscow's relations with Helsinki and Stockholm over their joining Nato.

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