Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said Vladimir Putin's "rhetoric" should be "ignored" after the Russian president issued a fresh threat to Nato.

Mr Putin said Moscow would respond in kind if Nato deployed military infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the alliance.

Speaking from the Nato summit in Madrid, Ms Truss told Sky News: "We've heard this rhetoric from Putin about all kinds of plans in the past.

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