Stoltenberg pledged that the bloc would “quite quickly” make a decision if Helsinki wants to join NATO “will warmly welcome” Finland if it applies to join, and is prepared to make a decision on membership “quite quickly,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.

The US has pledged to replace the S-300 missile defense system that Slovakia sent to Ukraine with one of its own Patriot systems, President Joe Biden announced on Friday. Bratislava previously revealed it had “donated” its only S-300 system to Kiev earlier on Friday.

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate last year, has reported that two men doused him with red paint as he prepared to travel by train from Moscow to Samara, on Thursday. The chief editor of the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta shared photos of his paint-splattered compartment and said his eyes were burning from the substance.