Finland’s President, Sauli Niinisto on Thursday said his nation would evaluate its security policy to decide whether to sign up with NATO or not. The new evaluation came just 18 months after the federal government completed its last evaluation, handling more urgency considering that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

DAILY POST had actually reported that Russia warned Finland and Sweden against signing up with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO.

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said there would be extreme military and political effects if Finland and Sweden opt to join NATO.

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Many Finns have traditionally been wary of Russia, with which their Nordic country shares a 1,340 kilometres (830 miles) border and a history of 2 wars between 1939 and 1944, which cost Finland significant area, NAN reports.

Nevertheless, Speaking on the possibility of Finland joining the defence alliance, Niinisto told press reporters, “When risks and options have actually been evaluated, then it’s time for conclusions,””We have safe options also for our future; we must examine them thoroughly.

“Not with hold-up, but thoroughly,” Niinisto added.

He, nevertheless, declined to offer a time frame for the procedure.

Niinisto had fulfilled U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington and was due to hold a phone call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

He declined to state what he would state to Putin, who calls Russia’s actions a special military operation to disarm its neighbour and dislodge leaders it calls neo-Nazis.

Kyiv and its Western allies said this was a baseless pretext to get into a country of 44 million people.