Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that securing Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea, was a top priority.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that bolstering his country's defense near Russia's borders is one of Sweden's core priorities to discuss with NATO after joining the military alliance last week.A historically neutral country, Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO on Thursday, growing the Western bloc amid fears that Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine could spill into eastern Europe next.
The island serves as a strategic hub for control of the Baltic Sea, which also borders Russia's second largest city, Saint Petersburg.'Gotland and Sweden being in NATO changes the entire calculus,' Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins told Financial Times last week. 'It means that the strategic control of the Baltic Sea would revert to NATO. It's a question that Russia understands very well.
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