Watch again: Boris Johnson and Finnish President give update after Ukraine meeting

Boris Johnson held a press conference with Finnish president Sauli Niinisto. The conference followed a meeting between the two leaders, where they discussed historic security assurance declarations in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Earlier on Wednesday (11 May), Johnson met with Swedish prime minister Magdalena Andersson, where he set out a commitment to come to Sweden's aid in the event of a crisis. Watch more videos on Independent TV: https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/editors-picks

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and now follow statements by the president and the prime minister president minister please thank you first of all mr prime minister boris thank you it's very valuable to have you here and we have had a very good conversation continuing that we already started in london the jack in jeff i've learned that one always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather they say this is attributed to winston churchill maybe you know better whether that is or not but nevertheless it describes the situation today in europe we are great friends finland and uk and strong security partners we signed joint statement we will stand together and support each other in any circumstances in good and bad weather deepen the cooperation we already have in chef specifically on defense hybrid threats other critical areas of security that's what we are doing here in finland we appreciate uk's strong support to nato's open door policy and finland's potential membership