Which countries are in Nato? Full list as Finland defies Putin to join military alliance.
Updated 3 April 2023, 
The Finnish army during shooting practice close to the border with Russia. (Getty)
Finland will join Nato on Tuesday in a move that will make the alliance stronger, the organisation's chief Jens Stoltenberg has said, as Moscow issued an immediate response to the announcement.
"We will raise the Finnish flag for the first time here at Nato headquarters. It will be a good day for Finland's security, for Nordic security and for Nato as a whole," he told reporters in Brussels.
The Finnish parliament overwhelmingly approved a proposal to apply for membership to the military alliance in May 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It has a 1,300km border with Russia, meaning Nato's frontier with Moscow will soon roughly double in length.
"President Putin went to war against Ukraine with the clear aim to get less Nato," Stoltenberg said. "He's getting the exact opposite." Yahoo News.
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