Vladimir Putin told the President of Finland he is making a ‘mistake’ by joining NATO and currently faces ‘no threats’ in a ‘direct and straightforward’ phone call this morning.
President Sauli Niinistö had said the conversation was ‘conducted without aggravations’ as both parties worked to ‘avoid tensions’.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and cyber-attacks on Finland and Sweden have ‘altered the security environment’ in Helsinki, Putin was told.
According to a Russian readout of the call, Putin said: ‘Abandoning the traditional
