Euronews. 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.
The 4.5-metre-high fence has been built in sections and is equipped with cameras and sensors.
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It covers 200 kilometres of Finland’s 1,340-kilometre frontier with Russia, with most of the barrier concentrated in the southeast.
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