Finland called "nuclear threats to Russia" the main reason for striving for NATO

“The bid to join NATO was driven mainly by Russian nuclear threats,” he said in an interview with Kyodo.

According to the Finnish diplomat, with the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the security situation in Europe has changed, and the country had to think about how to respond and where to get support in the event of a threat of the use of nuclear and chemical weapons.

Earlier, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said that Hungary intends to ratify the agreement on membership of Finland and Sweden in the North Atlantic Alliance in early February 2023.

According to Haavisto, he was informed about this by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijjártó.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia respects the sovereignty of Hungary in matters of domestic and foreign policy.

The Kremlin has repeatedly noted that Russia can use nuclear weapons only in accordance with the provisions of its nuclear doctrine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the inadmissibility of nuclear war is Russia's principled position.