# Finnish FM on AfD win in Germany: ‘I’m sure Moscow is happy’

https://mins.news/en/video/52577

- euronews, 2026-09-10 07:10 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y18a3l8VAlo

> Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says Russia is pleased with the Alternative for Germany’s recent election win. She warns that disinformation campaigns push people against one another and their governments, while declining to attribute the result solely to disinformation.

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