By Anne Kauranen and Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland must apply to join the NATO military alliance “without delay”, its president and prime minister said on Thursday, in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Moscow said the move was a threat to it and warned it was ready to respond. But Finland’s neighbour Sweden is also close to a decision on asking to join NATO after decades of following a neutral path. Russia has partly tried to justify its invasion of Ukraine as a means to protect itself from NATO’s eastwards expansion. However, Finnish President Sauli N…
