sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
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