The leader of the Swedish Moderates says his party and two others have agreed to form a minority government. The far-right Sweden Democrats will conditionally back the coalition without being part of it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's nearly three-month invasion of neighboring Ukraine suffered reverses on the battlefield and in the halls of power Sunday, as long-neutral Finland said it would apply to join the NATO military alliance and neighboring Sweden signaled it wouldn't be far behind.
Less than three months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the announcements are a stunning reversal of the two Nordic countries military non-alignment policies, dating back more than 75 years for Finland and two centuries for Sweden.
KYIV, May 16 Nato on Sunday pledged open-ended military support for Ukraine, as Finland hailed its “historic” bid to join the alliance and Sweden’s ruling party said it backed a joint membership application. The promise came after Finland jettisoned decades of military non-alignment,.