Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said she hopes US President Donald Trump will move forward on imposing sanctions against the aggressor state of russia. According to her, the likely reason for russia's current willingness to negotiate is the increased arms supplies to Ukraine.
She said this in an interview with Reuters on August 8.
"I certainly hope that President Trump will move forward with those sanctions," she said.
She added: "What we do see... is that the reason that Russia has again shown some willingness to talk, is that the increased arms deliveries (to Ukraine) are definitely piling up the pressure on Russia to find a way out of the war."
As a reminder, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated that the initiative for the meeting between russian president vladimir putin and US President Donald Trump came from the russian side.
The leader of the aggressor country, russia, vladimir putin, called the United Arab Emirates a suitable place for his meeting with US President Donald Trump and stated that his meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is still a long way off.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on the evening of August 4 that the US and NATO are launching a new mechanism to support Ukraine through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative.
Meanwhile, in June, the Finnish parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use of anti-personnel mines, amid concerns about the military threat from russia.
Lithuania and Finland will also begin their own production of anti-personnel mines next year to supply them to Ukraine and for their own security due to the military threat from the aggressor country, russia.
In addition, Finland will coordinate the activities of the international Ukraine Civil Protection Coalition, which will help Ukraine build 10,000 shelters over 10 years.
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