NATO membership only 'credible' security guarantee for Ukraine -- Finnish foreign minister
Membership in NATO is the only 'credible' security guarantee Ukraine can receive against any future Russian aggression, Finland's top diplomat said on Jan. 8, 2025. Ukraine's leaders have aggressively pushed for an invitation to the 32-member alliance but have met resistance from several key members as the war lurches toward its three-year mark and Ukrainian troops struggle to hold back Russian advances. Finland, which shares a 830-mile border with Russia, joined the alliance in 2023 after the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbor.
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Membership in NATO is the only 'credible' security guarantee Ukraine can receive against any future Russian aggression, Finland's top diplomat said on Jan. 8, 2025. Ukraine's leaders have aggressively pushed for an invitation to the 32-member alliance but have met resistance from several key members as the war lurches toward its three-year mark and Ukrainian troops struggle to hold back Russian advances. Finland, which shares a 830-mile border with Russia, joined the alliance in 2023 after the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbor.
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00:00I think in the long term the only credible security guarantee is Article 5 of the Washington
00:07Treaty, so NATO membership essentially, and we are supporting Ukraine's NATO membership
00:13further down the line.
00:16Russia certainly poses a threat to the entire Euro-Atlantic alliance, so therefore we need
00:22to cooperate very closely in finding solutions to this.
00:27So that for one, and the second thing is that, well, three years ago nobody thought that
00:34Finland would be joining NATO, or Sweden for that matter, so here we are.
00:38You never know.
00:39We should make use of our joint capabilities much better than we are able to do now.
00:44And what comes to the need for Europe to focus more on its own defence and put more effort
00:53into its own deterrence, we are very much on the same page with Trump on that, because
00:58I think we should do more, we can do more, and certainly Europe has improved massively
01:04over the course of the past years and will continue doing so.