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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Russia said on Wednesday it would adopt unspecified military-technical and other counter measures to protect itself against Sweden joining NATO, a move it cast as aggressive and as a mistake.<\/p>\n Sweden and Finland both bid to join NATO after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, setting off Europe\u2019s biggest conflict since the Second World War, an attritional battle that grinds on two years later.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will closely monitor what Sweden will do in the aggressive military bloc, how it will realize its membership in practice, we will build our response with retaliatory steps of a military-technical and other nature,\u201d Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.<\/p>\n \u201cSweden\u2019s accession to NATO is accompanied by the ongoing fueling of anti-Russian hysteria in the country, which, unfortunately, is encouraged by the Swedish political and military leadership, but its main source is abroad.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Sweden\u2019s move to join NATO was fuelling tensions and militarization, she added.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s embassy in Stockholm had also spoken of unspecified military and technical counter measures on its Telegram account on Tuesday depending on the extent of NATO troops and materiel deployments inside Sweden.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what they said when Finland joined NATO,\u201d as well,\u201d news agency TT reported Kristersson as saying on Wednesday during a trip to the town of Trollhatten in southern Sweden.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is well known that Russia doesn\u2019t like the fact of either Sweden or Finland being NATO members, but we make our own decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n He said Sweden was \u201con its toes\u201d to meet any response from Russia. \u201cWe are well prepared, and we see what they are doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 Russia said on Wednesday it would adopt unspecified military-technical and other counter measures to protect itself against Sweden joining NATO, a move it cast as aggressive and as a mistake. Sweden and Finland both bid to join NATO after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions\/15121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}