A delegation of Republican senators led by Mitch McConnell met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv
Finland will decide to seek NATO membership "in the next few days," nation's president tells PutinFinland's President Sauli Niinistö speaks at a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on May 11.
During the phone call initiated by Finland,"President Niinistö told President Putin how fundamentally the Russian demands in late 2021 aiming at preventing countries from joining NATO and Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have altered the security environment of Finland," read the statement.
Niinistö noted that he had already told Putin in their first meeting in 2012"that every independent nation maximizes its security" and that"this is what is happening now, too," the statement said. Niinistö"repeated his deep concern over the human suffering caused by the war Russia wages in Ukraine" and"stressed the imperative of peace." He also"conveyed the messages on securing the evacuation of civilians delivered earlier in the same week by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy," according to the statement.
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