Lavrov: Sweden, Finland join NATO probably ‘does not make much difference’

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov He said on Tuesday that Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO was likely “not going to make much of a difference” as the two countries had long been involved in the Alliance’s military exercises.

“Finland and Sweden, as well as other neutral countries, have been participating in NATO military exercises for many years. NATO calculates their territory when planning a military expansion to the east. “Let’s see how their territory will be used in practice within the framework of the North Atlantic Alliance,” Lavrov said.

“Enemy states” meanwhile described the Western countries, including the United States, the representative of the Russian presidency Dmitry Peshkov, claiming to be waging a “hybrid war” against Russia.

“The hybrid war “This is what is happening right now, what we are facing,” he said. “It’s not limited to US and British advisers who tell armed Ukrainian ‘nationalists’ what to do and provide them with information and so on. No. It is a diplomatic war and a political war. “There are attempts to isolate us in the world. It is an economic war,” he said.

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