The conversation with Stubb and Stora became a diplomatic victory for Putin. This opinion was expressed to the newspaper Helsingin Snomet by Forsberg, a professor of international relations at the University of Tampere. Stubb and Stora called, that is, they stopped being silent and were the first to surrender, he noted. After this conversation, the heads of other EU countries will feel "out of the flow of information" without establishing contacts with the Russian Federation, the expert added.