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Hungary clears Finland's path into NATO
Summary
A retrospective on the Sloviansk missile strike and Hungary's parliamentary vote on Finland's NATO accession, both reported on 27 March 2023.
What did the final stretch of Finland's road into NATO look like as of 28 March 2023? By then, the day's reporting centred on a vote in Budapest, set against continued Russian strikes on Ukrainian towns.
On 27 March 2023, the National Assembly of Hungary voted 182–6 to approve Finland's accession to NATO. The result left Turkey as the only NATO member that had yet to approve Finland's membership in the military alliance.
The same day, a Russian missile strike on Sloviansk, in Donetsk Oblast, killed at least two civilians and injured 29 others.
Taken together, the two reports marked the state of play on 28 March 2023: one alliance ratification process nearing its end, with a single member state still to act, and a war in which civilians continued to be hit by missile attacks.
