Russia responds to NATO, while Ukraine welcomes Finland’s accession

Russia warned NATO on Tuesday that Finland’s entry would not bolster the bloc’s security by forcing Moscow to take “countermeasures,” and Kyiv welcomed the expansion of the Atlantic alliance with an eye to its future accession.

“Any threat in our direction will be repelled,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told state television.

As for the military conflict, Moscow believes that the accession of the Nordic countries is another step in the current Western-instigated escalation of the conflict. Ukrainewho sees NATO as the best guarantee of your safety.

Less secure NATO

“Everything will be calibrated according to the changing environment. Their security (Finland and Sweden, which are waiting for their accession) will not be strengthened, the security of the Atlantic Alliance as a whole will also not be strengthened,” Ryabkov said.

Moscow accused Helsinki of falling victim to “Russophobia”, putting the interests of the West ahead of its own and finally sacrificing its independence.

He recalled that the “policy of non-military alignment” has long served the national interest. Finland and was “an important factor of confidence in the Baltic Sea region and on the European continent as a whole”.

For his part, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu acknowledged that “all of this – Western involvement in the conflict – contributed to the expansion NATO- “creates risks of a significant expansion of the conflict, but will not affect the outcome of the special operation.”

Although the Foreign Ministry predicted a deterioration in bilateral relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov assured that the situation with Finland was sharply different from aspirations. Ukraine join the Euro-Atlantic bloc.

“The situation with Finland is fundamentally different from the situation with Ukraine. Finland has never been againstRussia There were no disputes,” he said.

Countermeasures are being taken

What the first response measures will be, no one specified, although Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko assured that Moscow cannot ignore the “new military-political reality”, since NATO doubled its border with Russiawhich shares 1300 km of the demarcation border with Finland.

Grushko assured the TASS news agency that the development of these response measures, which included strengthening the military potential on Russia’s western flank, was already underway.

The Kremlin has announced that there will be “countermeasures”, although if the allies step up activity in the region, then Moscow will take additional “military-technical” measures.

They all backed the letter of the assertion, made nearly a year ago by Russian President Vladimir Putin, that a Finnish invasion poses no “immediate threat” unless Helsinki agrees to deploy the infrastructure. NATO on their territory.

nuclear writing

Although Ryabkov went even further, recalling that the doctrine of nuclear deterrence remains in place and that by suspending the last disarmament treaty with the United States, START III or New START, Moscow gained “additional capabilities” to ensure its own security.

He also referred to the recent agreement to deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, whose specialists began training on Wednesday, although the mines will not be ready until July.

“Our adversaries must really perceive what is happening around them. Do not bet on escalation, do not provoke us, because things can end with such turns … “, he assured.

The diplomat stressed that Russia has “military resources” and “political will” to protect its sovereignty and repel any threat to its territorial integrity.

Ukraine sees the entrance closer

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did not hesitate to congratulate Finland more than justified joy for his entry, as he is confident that this expansion will slightly advance Kyiv’s goal of joining the Alliance, the first step of which may be the next summit in Vilnius.

” NATO it has become the only effective guarantee of security in the region in the face of Russian aggression,” he said.

While Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov believed that “today it is safer in Europe,” the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmitry Kuleba, hastened to Brussels.

to the European Union and NATO He asked them to expedite both the production and supply of ammunition in order to guarantee the success of the next counter-offensives, and also recalled Kyiv’s plans to become a “full member of NATOlike Finland.

After meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Kuleba announced on Twitter that “more military aid is on the way to help Ukraine liberate more territory from Russian occupation.”

It was in Kyiv that they assured today that they repelled the last Russian attacks on the Bakhmut bastion (Donbass), from where Wagner mercenaries are advancing to the west, where the Ukrainian defenders of the city are concentrated.

(As reported by EFE)

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