Russia Says It Would Have To Rebalance If Finland And Sweden Join Nato

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov said on Thursday that if Finland and Sweden joined NATO, Russia would have to “rebalance the situation” with its own measures. Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which it says aims, among other things, to weaken Ukraine’s military and prevent it from becoming a bridgehead for a NATO attack, has prompted the Nordic countries to consider joining the alliance. US leadership. “If the two countries join, ‘we need to make our western side more sophisticated in terms of ensuring our security,’” Peshkov told Britain’s Sky News. However, she said Russia would not see such a move as an existential threat, of the kind that could prompt it to consider using nuclear weapons. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and the ensuing fighting killed thousands of civilians and soldiers and destroyed cities and towns, as well as an unprecedented barrage of coordinated Western sanctions. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Writes Kevin Liffey. Edited by Mark Trevelyan Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.