“If there’s an iota or an inkling of understanding that Putin wins this peace, then the United States will have lost, so I think we need to fight this to the bitter end,” Finland’s president said when asked what his message to Trump would be
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Antonio Costa, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkevics, Lithuania’s Gitanas Nauseda, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kristen Michal, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and French Minister Delegate for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad attend a press conference after the ‘Support Ukraine’ summit, marking the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. Reuters
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb on Monday said that the US will lose if Russia wins its war in Ukraine as fears mount in Europe about President Donald Trump’s intentions three years after Moscow’s invasion.
“The war in Ukraine is not only about Ukrainian independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity – it is about European security, and it is about American leadership,” Reuters quoted President Alexander Stubb as saying in an interview in Ukraine’s capital.
Stubb made these remarks on the sidelines of an event with 11 foreign leaders marking three years since Russia’s invasion, as Kyiv aims to strengthen support from its allies while its relationship with its primary backer, the US, remains uncertain.
Stubb expressed confidence in the alliance’s strength, noting that Finland, which joined Nato in 2023 after years of balancing its foreign policy, considers itself a “security provider, not a security consumer.”
“We just doubled Nato’s border with Russia. We have one of the largest militaries in Europe. We’ve always kept our defence expenditure up, and for an obvious reason, and that reason is not Stockholm, it’s Moscow.”
“If there’s an iota or an inkling of understanding that Putin wins this peace, then the United States will have lost, so I think we need t