Finnish leaders announce support for NATO membership, Russia warns the consequences
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Thursday leaders Thursday supported applying for joining the North Atlantic Agreement (NATO), and Sweden could do the same in a few days, in the historic rearrangement on the continent more than two months after the Russian President’s Ukraine invasion Vladimir Putin sent to Ukrain shivered in fear through Moscow’s neighbors.
Kremlin reacts with the warning that will be forced to take the steps of “military-technical” retaliation.
On the ground, meanwhile, Russian troops pounded areas in Central, North and East Ukraine, including the last pockets of resistance in Mariupol, as part of their attacks to take the Donbas industrial area, while Ukraine recolated several cities and villages in the northeast.
The First War Crime Court A Russian soldier since the beginning of the conflict will be opened on Friday in Kyiv. A 21 -year -old member from a tank unit was accused of shooting to death a civilian by bicycle during the opening week of the war.
LOOK IN THE MIRROR’
The President and Prime Minister of Finnish announced that the Nordic State must immediately register for membership in NATO, a military defense pact that was founded in part against the Soviet Union.”You (Russia) cause this. Look at the mirror, “said Finland President Sauli Niinisto this week.
While the state parliament still has to weigh, the announcement means that Finland will definitely register and get revenue – even though the process can take months to complete it. Sweden, also, is considering placing himself under NATO protection.
That will represent major changes in the European security landscape: Sweden has avoided military alliances for more than 200 years, while Finland adopted neutrality after his defeat by the Soviet in World War II.
Public opinion in the two countries shifted dramatically for NATO membership after the invasion, which aroused fear in countries along the Russian side that they could be the next.
Such an alliance expansion will make Russia surrounded by NATO countries in the Baltic Sea and the North Pole and will be the same as a stinging setback for Putin, who hopes to share and roll back NATO in Europe but instead see the opposite.
While the state parliament still has to weigh, the announcement means that Finland will definitely register and get revenue – even though the process can take months to complete it. Sweden, also, is considering placing himself under NATO protection.
That will represent major changes in the European security landscape: Sweden has avoided military alliances for more than 200 years, while Finland adopted neutrality after his defeat by the Soviet in World War II.
Public opinion in the two countries shifted dramatically for NATO membership after the invasion, which aroused fear in countries along the Russian side that they could be the next.
Such an alliance expansion will make Russia surrounded by NATO countries in the Baltic Sea and the North Pole and will be the same as a stinging setback for Putin, who hopes to share and roll back NATO in Europe but instead see the opposite.
NUCLEAR THREAT
The donations of NATO weapons and other military support to Ukraine have been very important for Kyiv’s shocking success in obstructing invasion, and Kremlin warns in terrible terms on Thursday that assistance can cause direct conflict between NATO and Russia.
There is always a risk of such conflict to turn into a full scale nuclear war, a scenario that will be a disaster for all,” said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council.
While Russia’s progress in Donbas is slow, his troops have received several land and took several villages.
Four civilians were killed Thursday in three communities in the Donetsk region, which was part of Donbas, the Regional Governor reported.
The British Ministry of Defense said Russia’s focus on Donbas had left its remaining troops around the northeast city of Kharkiv vulnerable to a counterattack from Ukraine forces, which reclaimed several cities and villages around the city.
The Russian strike killed at least two civilians on the outskirts of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, said local authorities.
The donations of NATO weapons and other military support to Ukraine have been very important for Kyiv’s shocking success in obstructing invasion, and Kremlin warns in terrible terms on Thursday that assistance can cause direct conflict between NATO and Russia.
There is always a risk of such conflict to turn into a full scale nuclear war, a scenario that will be a disaster for all,” said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council.
While Russia’s progress in Donbas is slow, his troops have received several land and took several villages.
Four civilians were killed Thursday in three communities in the Donetsk region, which was part of Donbas, the Regional Governor reported.
The British Ministry of Defense said Russia’s focus on Donbas had left its remaining troops around the northeast city of Kharkiv vulnerable to a counterattack from Ukraine forces, which reclaimed several cities and villages around the city.
The Russian strike killed at least two civilians on the outskirts of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, said local authorities.
Of course, the Russian state is in such a way that any education only blocks its way. But what can be achieved by destroying Ukraine schools? All Russian commanders who gave such orders were really sick and could not be cured. “
Noting that Thursday was International Nurse Day, Zelenskyy said the Russian military had damaged 570 medical facilities since the invasion began on February 24 and destroyed 101 hospitals.
Twelve Russian missiles hit the oil refinery and other infrastructure at the Central Ukraine Industry Center on Thursday, the governor of the region’s acting, Dmytro Lunin, wrote in a telegram post. In early April, he said, the refinery, which was the last function in Ukraine at that time, was stacked offline by attacks.
At the southern port of Marieupol, which has been mostly reduced to smoking debris with a little food, water, or drugs, or what the mayor is referred to as “medieval ghetto,” Ukraine warriors continued from resistance in the city.
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said negotiations were ongoing with Russia to win the release of 38 Ukraine defenders who were seriously injured from the factory. He said Ukraine hoped to exchange it for 38 “significant” Russian war prisoners.
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