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MADRID — Finland and Sweden's plans to join the NATO alliance send Russia a clear signal that Russian leader Vladimir Putin's strategy is wrong and self-defeating, Emmanuel France. President Macron told the NATO Summit in Spain.
Earlier this week, NATO invited Sweden and Finland on Wednesday, the biggest security in Europe in decades after Helsinki and Stockholm lost their traditional neutrality due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Joined the military alliance in one of the changes.
Russian troops also announced on Thursday that they had abandoned their strategic Black Sea outpost on Snake Island. This was a big Ukrainian victory that could loosen the grip of Russia's grain export blockade. (Report by Geertde Clercq; edited by SudipKar-Gupta)
