Putin will always pick up the phone if the leaders of Finland and Norway want to call him, Ushakov said. In Europe, there is now a difference in estimates based on the results of Vladimir Putin's phone call with Alexander Staab and Jonas Gaher Ster, the aide to the Russian president said. Moscow did not expect that Finland and Norway would defend this initiative. The Russian side assumed that the conversation was agreed with the "European Troika".

Putin will always pick up the phone if the leaders of Finland and Norway want to call him, Ushakov said. In Europe, there is now a difference in estimates based on the results of Vladimir Putin's phone call with Alexander Staab and Jonas Gaher Ster, the aide to the Russian president said. Moscow did not expect that Finland and Norway would defend this initiative. The Russian side assumed that the conversation was agreed with the "European Troika".