RT News - May 12 2022 (09:00 MSK)

NATO may soon add two new Nordic members near Russia, as Finland and Sweden are expected to announce they'll join the Western military bloc and give up their historic neutrality. A French former soldier shocks the Western media by saying he saw Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion torture and murder captured Russian soldiers, and threaten to commit other atrocities. Ukrainians seek refuge in neighboring Russia, despite Kiev's attempts to deter them from crossing the eastern border. RT presents special coverage of the stories of Ukrainian refugees.