Finland closes entire border with Russia after tensions over asylum seekers

This is Russia's influence operation and we do not accept it."

I think this is another example of how Russia is using many different tools to put pressure on neighbors. We have seen them using energy, we have seen them using cyberattacks, we have seen them using different kinds of clandestine operations to try to undermine our democracies."

So far this month, more than 900 asylum seekers from countries including Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Syria have arrived in Finland from Russia, according to the Finnish border guard—a considerable increase on usual numbers. Many are understood to have arrived by bicycle in the snow and ice. You see them in just trainers."

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