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Turkey to Support Finland for NATO Membership Bid

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Turkey confirms that it has agreed to Finland’s bid for its accession to the NATO alliance. Sweden, however, was left behind and is yet to get support. After months of negotiations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Finland’s membership in NATO this Friday, but he emphasised that talks with Sweden will go on. The announcement ends a roughly 10-month wait for Finland to join the alliance since Erdogan abstained from it. Erdogan told his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, in Ankara, “We have decided to commence the approval of Finland’s membership procedure to NATO in our parliament,”. He asserted that NATO…

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Poland to Send Mig-29 Jets to Help Ukraine

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President Andrzej Duda has announced that Poland will send its four Mig29s to Ukraine, with more such deliveries to follow. Poland announced it would send four MiG-29 jet fighters to Ukraine, making it the first Western country to dispatch jets to Kyiv. The help has come amidst Ukraine’s preparations for counteroffensive operations against Russia. The announcement has indicated a significant improvement in military support for Kyiv. “In the next days, we are handing over four aircraft to Ukraine in complete operational order,” Duda stated during a news conference in Warsaw with the newly inaugurated president of the Czech Republic, Petr…

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