Finland and Norway hold rare call with Putin on ending Ukraine war
Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a 'frank and substantive' phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine, breaking with longstanding Western European practice of shunning direct contact with Putin.
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