Russia's President Putin calls for urgent talks over NATO's eastward expansion, in phone calls with Finnish and French leaders
NATO has bolstered its forces near Russia and conducted drills in Baltic member countries after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
He told President Sauli Niinsto that Moscow wants "to immediately launch negotiations with the United States and NATO in order to develop international legal guarantees for the security of our country," the Kremlin said in a statement. In his call with the Finnish president, Putin also accused the Ukrainian leadership of increasingly using "heavy weapons and attack drones" against pro-Russia rebels in its separatist east.
The EU and the G7 met in recent days to coordinate what they warn would be an unprecedented economic sanctions regime if Russia attacks.
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