Reports of alleged incident follow US envoys’ meetings with the Russian and Ukrainian president.
Finland’s military says its forces have detected a rare strike on a Russian navy vessel in the Baltic Sea as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised mediation efforts led by US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
A spokesperson for the Nordic country’s military said in an email to the Reuters news agency that its forces “detected … a strike on a Russian warship in the Gulf of Finland area and has monitored the development of the situation”, adding that Finland is not under “any immediate military threat”.
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