“Biden has made it very clear... as have several of his colleagues from other NATO countries, that they support Sweden during this period.

At the same time, I must also say that Russia acted very reasonably in this situation, ”TASS quotes her.

On the morning of May 17, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde signed an application for the country's entry into NATO.

Finnish leader Sauli Niinistö said earlier that he was surprised at the calmness with which the head of the Russian state, Vladimir Putin, took the conversation between them, in which the Finnish president announced his intention to join NATO.