"We don't have problems with Sweden and Finland like we do with Ukraine ... accused NATO of seeking to assert its "supremacy" and "imperial ambitions," as well as using the Ukrainian people ...

This came as NATO officially invited Sweden and Finland to join the alliance ... leaders wish to… assert their supremacy, their imperial ambitions,” the Russian president added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned NATO’s “imperial ambitions”, accusing ... if NATO deployed troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after the two Nordic countries ...