HelsinkiPutin spoke with 2 Nordic leaders for 90 minutes.
It is the first European leaders’ contact with him since July 2025.
Finland’s Stubb and Norway’s Støre called to influence US-brokered Ukraine talks, set for Abu Dhabi in November.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said “It hasn’t been co-ordinated with any of the rest of us.”
The three agreed to keep talking by phone, the Kremlin said.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 450+ reports worldwide
- Financial Times News
- frames the call as the first Putin contact with European allies since July 2025, ahead of Abu Dhabi talks in November
- TASS
- relays Støre's 90-minute call as 'substantive' while conceding 'major differences', citing Kremlin readout on continued contacts
- BBC
- quotes Stubb and Støre stressing the call was not on behalf of 'Europe as a whole', and Putin blaming EU and NATO policies for prolonging the war
Sources: Financial Times News, TASS, BBC