Published on
09/09/2026 - 12:33 GMT+2
Finland completed a 200-kilometre security fence along its border with Russia, strengthening NATO’s longest frontier with a country's accused of intensified hybrid attacks on Europe.
The project was launched after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine transformed Finland’s security environment and prompted the country to abandon decades of military non-alignment and join NATO in April 2023.
Later that year, more than 1,300 migrants without visas arrived at Finland’s eastern border. Helsinki accused Moscow of “hybrid warfare” by orchestrating the movement of third-country nationals towards the frontier, a charge the Kremlin denied.
