Ukraine Latest: Finland Set to Join NATO After Turkey’s Vote

Turkey’s parliament voted to approve Finland’s membership in NATO, removing the final hurdle to the accession of Russia’s Nordic neighbor into the defense alliance. The vote seals a major change in European security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Finland’s roughly 1,300 kilometer (800 mile) border with Russia will double the length of the alliance’s Russian frontier. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia for detaining Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on suspicion of espionage. “We are deeply concerned over Russia’s widely reported detention of a US citizen journalist,” Blinken said in a statement. It’s the first time a US reporter has been held on spying charges since the Cold War.