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Norway’s PM defends rare call with Putin on Ukraine despite doubts among European leaders – Europe live

Jonas Gahr Støre says he and Finland’s Alexander Stubb had ‘substantive’ discussion with Russian president on behalf of their two countries only Meanwhile, Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, has warned that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is “testing us and testing Nato’s resolve” as he condemned hybrid threats and “state-sponsored terrorism” from Russia. Streeting repeated his recent warnings that “we have to be ready for a scenario in which the United Kingdom and the Nato alliance finds itself at w