Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Russia will implement new military measures in its northern territories should Sweden opt to join NATO.
Currently, Sweden is an EU member but has chosen not to be a NATO member, opting to instead retain its policy of military non-alliance that it pursued during the Cold War.
The crisis in Ukraine, however, seems to have changed attitudes in Sweden, as a poll in September found that 41 percent of Swedes favored NATO membership, while 39 percent remained against it.
Lavrov spoke to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, with the transcript of his interviews being published …read more
Source: Newsweek
