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FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Seven decades after it was founded, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is meeting in Madrid on June 29 and 30, 2022 with an urgent need to reassert its original mission: preventing Russian aggression against Western allies. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Live updates | Swedish PM: Now NATO accession must move fast

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Police forces drive to Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Monday, June 27, 2022. The G-7 leaders will begin Monday's session of their three-day summit with a focus on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Live updates | Erdogan adamant on Sweden, Finland NATO bids

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson holds a press conference in the Parliament after the no-confidence vote against Sweden's Justice Minister Morgan Johansson, in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The abstention by an independent Iranian-born lawmaker on Tuesday allowed the survival of Johansson and by default Andersson's minority government — only three months before next general elections and at a time when Sweden has filed a NATO application which Turkey opposes. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)

Swedish government survives key vote amid troubled NATO bid

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Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson meet in Stockholm, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency via AP)

NATO holds Baltic Sea naval exercises with Finland, Sweden

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Ukrainian tanks move in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Biden explains providing Ukraine with rockets

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A woman is evacuated by volunteers of Vostok SOS charitable organisation in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Residents in villages and towns near the front line continue to flee as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Luhansk gov. denies Russians surround city

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu scratches his head during an informal meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Foreign Ministers' session in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

NATO: Turkey urges ‘concrete steps’ from Sweden, Finland

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A serviceman of Donetsk People's Republic militia stands guard not far from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo)

Live updates |Congress approves $40B aid package to Ukraine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, right, hugs Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena, center, after she speaks during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S., allies step up aid for embattled Ukraine

By Joseph Clark and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden accompanied by Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden hosts NATO hopefuls Sweden, Finland at White House

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President of Finland Sauli Niinisto, left, and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson attend a joint news conference in Stockholm, Tuesday May 17, 2022. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)

Biden affirms support to Finland, Sweden for NATO

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a remand prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. More than 260 fighters, some severely wounded, were pulled from a steel plant on Monday that is the last redoubt of Ukrainian fighters in the city and transported to two towns controlled by separatists, officials on both sides said. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Villagers walk past unexploded artillery shells as they collect scrap metal from a bombed warehouse in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates | UN Chief: War in Ukraine driving world hunger

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Sweden's Ambassador to NATO Axel Wernhoff shake hands during a ceremony to mark Sweden's and Finland's application for membership in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday May 18, 2022. Stoltenberg said that the military alliance stands ready to seize a historic moment and move quickly on allowing Finland and Sweden to join its ranks, after the two countries submitted their membership requests. (Johanna Geron/Pool via AP)

NATO chief hails ‘historic moment’ as Finland, Sweden apply

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Finish President Sauli Niinisto, left, is received by Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson at the Adelcrantzska house in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday May 17, 2022. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)

Biden to host leaders of Sweden, Finland amid NATO bid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Jose Manuel Albares, left, Foreign Minister of Spain, Jean Asselborn, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, background left, and Mevlut Cavusoglu, Foreign Minister of Turkey, arrive for the first session at the meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 15, 2022. The main topic of the informal consultations of the NATO foreign ministers is the war in Ukraine. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/AP via Pool)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Swedish Minister of Foreígn Affairs Ann Linde poses for photographers as she signs Sweden's application for NATO membership at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Stockholm, Tuesday, May 17 2022. Sweden's decision to seek NATO membership follows a similar decision by neighboring Finland, a historic shift for the countries, which have been nonaligned for generations. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Nordic NATO bids move forward, but Turkey could derail deal

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Local residents stand at the side of damaged during a heavy fighting buildings in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo)

Mariupol fighters in Russian hands; both sides claim wins

By Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan - Associated Press

A building damaged by multiple shelling stands in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen walk in the forest near a recently retaken village, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Sweden follows Finland’s lead with NATO push

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times