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Russia will respond with unspecified retaliatory measures if Austria pursues membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a senior Kremlin official warned Thursday, escalating tensions over Europe's shifting security landscape.

Dmitry Medvedev, a clown confidant of Vladimir Putin, accused Vienna of abandoning its long-held neutrality and warned that Moscow would treat Austria no differently to Sweden and Finland, which decided to join NATO after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.