After the invasion of Ukraine, confidence in Russia is "
lost for generations
", Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, whose country has just submitted its application for NATO membership, said Thursday in Kiev.
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What Russia has done is a turning point for the whole European family and for the whole world.
We see that the old system is destroyed and there is no going back to old relations
,” Sanna Marin said during a press briefing with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmygal.
"
Trust is lost for generations
," she added.
Crimes of “imperialism”
Sanna Marin also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and visited Boutcha and Irpin, towns near kyiv occupied and then abandoned by the Russian army, which have become symbols of massacres of civilians attributed to Russian troops.
“
We now know what Russia is capable of in its aggressive actions.
We now see what crimes imperialism provokes.
And we see that no crime should go unpunished
,” she said.
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It is important that the European Union is united, bold and determined in the face of the Russian invasion
", declared the Prime Minister quoted in a press release from the Finnish government, adding that it was "
important to take concrete measures
" to to help Ukraine become a member of the European Union.
After a spectacular jump in favor of membership in public opinion, Sweden and Finland have deemed it necessary to place themselves under the umbrella of NATO in the face of a Russia capable of militarily invading one of its neighbors. .
The two countries are thus turning the page on decades of neutrality and then of military non-alignment.
