Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to normalising relations with Finland if the Finnish government wants to rebuild them.
According to Reuters, Peskov said relations between the two countries were in a "sad state", if Helsinki wanted relations back to where they were prior to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
On Monday, Finnish President Alexander Stubb told British PM Keir Starmer that Finland would have to "mentally prepare" for the restoration of ties with Russia.
Finland joined Nato in 2023 — which Moscow described as a historic mistake — and shares a 1,300 kilometre border with Russia, a border which has been closed for over a year.
