Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre hold rare call with Putin to end Ukraine war

Helsinki/Moscow, Oct 27 (UNI) Finland's President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre have held a rare telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss possible negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. The call, held from Helsinki on Tuesday, aimed to explore "future negotiations to help to end the war", the leaders' offices said. They stressed that the initiative was not undertaken on behalf of Europe as a whole. "Finland and Norway border Russia," Stubb and Støre said, adding that they had initiated the conversation to discuss Russia's war against Ukraine, diplomatic efforts to end the…