Finland has amended its national legislation to allow the stationing of nuclear weapons on its territory in the future. The Nordic country thus joins NATO’s nuclear shield, as Ukrainian broadcaster 24tv reports, citing former head of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service Mykola Malomuzh.
Lithuanian Gitanas Nausėda stated that his country also wants to join the nuclear deterrence system. Malomuzh emphasized that the Baltic states and Finland are among Russia’s priority targets within the NATO framework. They are therefore particularly sensitive to aggressive steps by the Kremlin and its possible plans for a second front.
The general pointed out that Russia has already violated international agreements on nuclear non-proliferation by deploying nuclear weapons to Belarus. At the same time, Moscow has expanded its own right to use nuclear weapons – not only against Ukraine, but also against Finland and the Baltic states. The legal steps by Helsinki and Vilnius are a first warning: they signal that in the future, ballistic and nuclear missiles could be launched from their territory at Russian cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow – within minutes.
Source: 24tv.ua
