Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov stepped back from the nuclear threat issued by Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev yesterday following the statements made by the prime ministers of Finland and Sweden in Stockholm the day before. “I can say nothing in this regard, because only after a plan of our enhancement of the western borders is drafted. It will contain a number of measures and all necessary steps to be taken,” Peskov told journalists, reported TASS. “It will be considered at a separate presidential session, just like Putin said himself previously.”
Medvedev had said a few hours earlier that should Sweden and Finland join NATO, Russia would no longer adhere to the non-nuclear status of the Baltic region.
