ABC News:-
Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning Finland and Sweden that if they welcome NATO troops and military infrastructure onto their territory, Russia will respond in kind.
He said Wednesday that Russia will have to “create the same threats for the territory from which threats against us are created.”
The two formerly nonaligned Baltic countries were formally invited Wednesday to join the Western military alliance.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the war in Ukraine has brought “the biggest overhaul of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War.”
