One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies warned NATO on Thursday that if Sweden and Finland joined the U.S.-led military alliance then Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in a European exclave.
Highlights
- Finland and Sweden are considering joining the NATO alliance.
- If Sweden and Finland join the U.S.-led military alliance then Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in a European exclave.
- Russia has the world’s biggest arsenal of nuclear warheads and along with China and the United States is one of the global leaders in hypersonics missile technology.
- Finland announced a military exercise in western Finland with the participation of Britain, United States, Latvia, Estonia and Estonia.
- The possible accession of Finland and Swedish into NATO would be one of biggest strategic consequences of the war in Ukraine.
- Russia said in 2018 it had deployed Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, which was captured by