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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Finland ‘preparing for the worst’ as Russia expands military presence near border

Rear of a border guard standing in front of the fence on the Finnish-Russian border
Finland’s border guard has completed the first 35km of a planned 200km fence on its eastern border with Russia. Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters

Finland has said it expects Russia to further build up troops along their shared border when the war in Ukraine ends, after reports that Moscow had strengthened its military bases near the Nato frontier.

Maj Gen Sami Nurmi, the head of strategy of the Finnish defence forces, said the military is following Moscow’s manoeuvring “very closely” and that it was their job, as part of the Nato alliance, to “prepare for the worst”.

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