Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Sweden for the first time over the weekend, meeting with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at his country .
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If Finland is accepted to NATO first, leaving Sweden behind would lead to concerns for the military bloc in the long term, according to the former Swedish prime minister.
In Turkey, Presidents Erdogan and Niinistö are meeting today to discuss Finland's NATO application. An announcement on whether Finland will be released before Sweden is likely to be on the agenda. "It is time for Turkey to approve Finland as a NATO member and there will be a press conference with the presidents later in the day," says SVT's correspondent Tomas Thorén on site in Ankara.
This development has been slammed as adverse for Sweden, a setback for NATO s "open doors policy" and a hindrance to military cooperation between the two Nordic nations.