Mr. Medvedev: Russia will deploy nuclear weapons if Sweden, Finland join NATO

Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting with members of the Russian Security Council in Moscow in February

Reuters reported that former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned on May 14 NATO about letting Switzerland and Finland join this military alliance. Mr. Medvedev is currently Vice Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and a close ally of the Russian Federation Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Medvedev said that if Sweden and Finland join NATO, Russia will have to strengthen its land, naval and air forces in the region. Baltic Sea to restore military balance.

Mr. Medvedev, the former president of Russia from 2008 to 2012, also threatened that Russia would have to deploy nuclear weapons to Kaliningrad, an enclave between Poland and Russia. Lithuania.

“It is not possible to continue talking about the denuclearization of the Baltic region. The balance must be restored,” Medvedev said.

“Hitherto, Russia has not done so (implementation of the kernel) and will not do it. However, if we are pressed, remember that we are not the initiators of this,” added the former Russian president.

In response, Lithuania on April 14 declared that Russia’s threats were nothing new because Moscow deployed nuclear weapons to Kaliningrad long before the military operation in Ukraine.

Sweden and Finland, which share a 1,300-kilometer border with Russia, are considering joining the NATO military alliance. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on April 13 that the country would make a decision in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, Sweden is evaluating policy security and the process will be finished by the end of next month. “I do not rule out NATO membership in any way,” Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said two weeks ago.