Russia has threatened to retaliated against Finland after the country’s president and prime minister said they wanted to join NATO without delay.

Finland and Sweden are expected to make their NATO applications official on Sunday.

NATO’s general secretary Jens Stoltenberg expects the process to membership to be quite quick.

Russia has responded by saying it will be forced to take retaliatory steps in order to neutralise the threats to national security that might arise.

Former Ambassador to Russia Ian Hill joined Heather du Plessis-Allan.

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