Finland's President Alexander Stubb warned on Monday that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is not a person to be trusted.

"You cannot trust Vladimir Putin, you cannot make a deal with Putin because that also means a deal with China," Stubb said at an international summit in Kiev on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Russian invasion.

The Finnish head of state further noted that Russia started the war, not in 2022, but in 2008 when it attacked Georgia and then in 2014 when it annexed Crimea. "If we allow Russia to do what it wants to do then it's not only Ukraine that has lost, it is Europe that has lost and also the US that has lost," he emphasized.