Thursday, 14 December 2023

Finland reopens Russia border but shuts it again amid asylum row

Helsinki accuses Moscow of orchestrated ‘hybrid operation’ that Kremlin denies after 36 people cross from east

Finland has reopened its border with Russia only to shut it again within hours, in the latest stage of a row over asylum seekers in which Helsinki accused Moscow of staging a “hybrid operation” on the EU’s most easterly edge.

After a two-week period of total closure of the border, two of the eight crossings on the 830-mile land frontier were reopened briefly.

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