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Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

Russia hits east Ukraine as war pushes Finland closer to Nato

Nadiia, the wife of Lubomyr Savchuk, who died on May 9 near the town of Zolote in Luhansk region, at his funeral in the village of Staryi Yarychiv, Lviv, on Thursday

(Picture: REUTERS)

Russian forces pounded areas in Ukraine’s east on Thursday, including the last pocket of resistance in besieged Mariupol, as a war that is redrawing Europe’s security map pushed Russia’s neighbour Finland closer to joining Nato.

Finland’s president and prime minister said on Thursday that the Nordic country should apply “without delay” for membership in the Western alliance, founded in part to counter the Soviet Union.

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