With Moscow accused of waging hybrid warfare on its neighbour and driving refugees and migrants to the border area, the Finnish government abruptly announced on Tuesday that it would close the entire 830-mile land border between the two countries for two weeks.
And I have to say that when you look at the weather conditions at the moment in Lapland, it was -25 C [last] week. And then you put people bicycling there.
There are similarities, certainly, with the migration crisis of 2015 and 2016, when about 1,700 people traversed Finland's remote northern border crossings. But, for the head of the border guard's international affairs unit, the tensions that have heightened in recent weeks between Helsinki and Moscow have resulted in a situation that is unique.
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