Finland to join Nato military alliance on Tuesday

Finland volition go the 31st subordinate of Nato connected Tuesday, the Western subject alliance's caput wide has announced.

The exertion was prompted by the penetration of Ukraine by Russia, with which Finland shares a agelong border.

Turkey had delayed the application, complaining that Finland was supporting "terrorists".

Sweden applied to articulation Nato astatine the aforesaid clip past May, but Turkey is blocking it implicit akin complaints.

Any Nato enlargement needs the enactment of each its members.

"We volition rise the Finnish emblem for the archetypal clip present astatine Nato headquarters. It volition beryllium a bully time for Finland's security, for Nordic information and for Nato arsenic a whole," Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said successful Brussels.

"Sweden volition besides beryllium safer arsenic a result," helium said.