If Finland and Sweden join NATO, Moscow will have more “officially registered opponents,” Russian Deputy Security Council deputy Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
On the Telegram, the former president and prime minister of Russia have concluded that the alliance’s border with Russia will more than double after the accession of Finland and Sweden.
According to him, in such a situation, Russia will need to seriously strengthen its ground forces and air defense, as well as deploy significant naval forces in the Gulf of Finland.
“In that case, there will be no more talk about the status of the Baltics without nuclear weapons – the balance will have to be restored,” Medvedev writes.
He also said that Sweden and Finland would be invited to NATO even if Russia had not invaded Ukraine.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marina has already announced on Wednesday that Helsinki will decide in the coming weeks whether to apply for NATO membership, while Swedish Prime Minister Magdalen Andesson has already decided in favor of NATO membership, and her government plans to apply to join NATO at the end of June. summit in Madrid.
Before the start of the war against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that NATO stop expanding and withdraw its forces from Russia’s borders.
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