And former leader Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president between 2008 and 2012, sharpened the rhetoric coming out of the Kremlin on Tuesday.
Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, also said if Finland and Sweden joined Nato, Russia would strengthen its borders and would be"ready for retaliatory steps". He warned that could include the prospect of installing Iskander hypersonic missiles"on their threshold.
Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called it"the biggest overhaul of our collective defence and deterrence since the Cold War".with Sweden and Finland each applying to join the bloc. General Sir Patrick Sanders, the Chief of the General Staff, will say he had never seen such a clear threat to peace and democracy as the “brutal aggression” of Putin.
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