{"id":28290,"date":"2026-11-01T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=28290"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:53:33","slug":"finnish-president-says-he-and-norwegian-pm-called-putin-at-ukraines-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=28290","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Finnish President Says He and Norwegian PM Called Putin at Ukraine\u2019s Request<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Ukraine\u2019s request. He said Ukraine wanted to open a channel of communication with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Finnish broadcaster Yle, Stubb said the call was intended to establish a channel of communication at Ukraine\u2019s request. He added that other European countries were aware of the conversation\u2019s contents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the first time the European Union received a direct message from Russia about the war in Ukraine or, for example, the situation in the Baltic Sea,\u201d Stubb said.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb rejected a Financial Times report that the history of the Slavs had been discussed during the call, calling it incorrect. He also said Finland was not acting as a mediator and would continue supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb and St\u00f8re spoke with Putin on October 27. 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He said Ukraine wanted to open a channel of communication with Moscow. Speaking to Finnish broadcaster Yle, Stubb said the call was intended to establish a channel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,165,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-eu-us","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finnish President Says He and Norwegian PM Called Putin at Ukraine\u2019s Request - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Finnish President Stubb said he and Norwegian Prime Minister St\u00f8re spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Ukraine\u2019s request.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=28290\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finnish President Says He and Norwegian PM Called Putin at Ukraine\u2019s Request - 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