One of the most significant geopolitical shifts in Europe to result directly from the conflict is Finland’s historic decision to apply to NATO, which was motivated by its neighbor Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Sauli Niinisto, the president of the nation, will travel to NATO’s headquarters in Brussels for the accession on Tuesday.
On March 30, Turkey, the final opposition to Helsinki joining the military alliance, approved the membership request. Sweden’s application for membership, submitted at the same time as Finland’s, is still pending.
Meanwhile, Vladlen Tatarsky’s pro-war blogger wife’s husband denied allegations that he killed the blogger on Monday.
Investigators in Russia seized Daria Trepova on Monday and charged her with bringing a bomb-filled hollow bust into a cafe in St. Petersburg and giving it to Tatarsky before it went off, killing the well-known Kremlin supporter and injuring at least 30 others.
Dmitry Rylov, Trepova’s husband, stated on Monday that he believes his wife was set up and “did not fully comprehend the purpose” of the bust she gave to Tatarsky.
According to an NBC translation of his comments, he told STV News, “I think my wife was framed.” “I’m rather certain she couldn’t have accomplished that on her own volition. True, Daria and I oppose the war in Ukraine, but we also think that such behavior is reprehensible.
Trepova appeared in a video that Russia released on Monday that may have been taken under duress; in it, she confessed taking the statuette into the cafe but declined to explain who had given it to her.
Rylov claimed, amid speculation that she might have felt it was intended as a listening device, “′′[Daria] assumed that [the bust] was needed for something else. Some covert stuff that might go unreported forever,” he said.
However experts at the Institute for the Study of War noticed there hadn’t been an unified response to the tragedy and the authorities’ response, Tatarsky’s death has stirred up pro-war commentators in Russia.
Tatarsky received the Order of Courage from Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday “for heroism and bravery in doing his professional duty” as a “war correspondent.”
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