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Deployment of Nato military infrastructure in Finland and Sweden will trigger a response from Moscow, Vladimir Putin warned as the two Nordic nations took steps to join the alliance after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The expansion of Nato to include Sweden and Finland poses “no direct threat for us ... but the expansion of military infrastructure to these territories will certainly provoke our response”, Putin said during a televised summit meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, a Moscow-led military alliance.

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