People look at a Finnish Customs official's dog at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland, November 22, 2023
FINNISH border guards and soldiers began erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia to better control an influx of migrants, officials said on Wednesday.
Finland said that it will close three more crossing points along the 830-mile border, leaving only one Arctic point open for refugees seeking asylum.
Some 600 migrants without valid visas and documentation, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, have arrived in Finland in November compared to a few dozen in September and October.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys