SPUTNIK NEWS
Finland and Sweden are expected to formally announce their decision to join the North Atlantic Alliance at the upcoming NATO summit in June. On Thursday, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin issued a joint statement that they support Helsinki's accession to the Western bloc.
Finnish accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation would "certainly" constitute a threat to Russia's security, and Moscow will analyse the consequences of such a step for its own security, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
"The latest expansion of NATO will not make our continent more stable and secure", Peskov said, speaking to reporters on Thursday.
Asked to comment on whether the Western bloc might try to use the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to incorporate even more countries bordering Russia, Peskov said that "a wide range of options is always being considered and analysed".
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