Russia|According to the head of the Russian border guard, Finland itself created the migrant crisis on the eastern border in order to get an excuse for closing the border.
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The head of the Russian border guard accuses Finland of staging the migrant crisis on the eastern border.
According to the border chief, the Finnish authorities would have published information on social media about the asylum “offered to everyone”, and then abandoned the asylum seekers who stayed on the Russian side.
According to the border chief, Russia only offered migrants help in returning to their countries of origin “to stabilize the situation”.
Finland itself staged the migrant crisis on its eastern border to justify the closure of its border against Russia, claims the head of the Russian border guard, general Vladimir Kulishov Russian state-owned news agency In an interview with Ria Novosti.
“In reality, the ‘immigrant crisis’ was caused by the Finnish authorities themselves”, Kulišov explained instrumentalized immigration on Finland’s eastern border.
The Russian Border Guard operates under the FSB security service.
“We believe that the deliberate provoking of the ‘migrant crisis’ on the Russian-Finnish border was necessary so that the Finnish authorities could implement the plans of NATO and, above all, the United States to deploy military field infrastructure and foreign troops in their territory, for example in the border areas of Russia,” Kulišov said, according to Russian media.
The comments are also reported by Russians, among others Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Izvestija.
Kulishov claims that the Finnish authorities had actively published information on social media about the asylum offered to “everyone”.
“Slightly before the so-called influx of foreign immigrants from Russia, Western media and Finnish social media accounts actively published information about Helsinki [Suomen] about the readiness to offer asylum to all foreigners, including those who entered the country illegally. These publications influenced the influx of foreigners, above all immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia,” Kulišov said.
Based on the Ria Novosti news, Kulišov does not provide evidence for his claim, and the claim is not true.
Russia organized asylum seekers on Finland’s eastern border starting last fall. According to the Finnish government, it was Russia’s hybrid influence and instrumentalized immigration facilitated by Russia, which aimed to influence Finland’s national security and public order.
Therefore, the eastern border has been closed since mid-December. For the time being, it is not possible to apply for international protection at the land border crossings between Finland and Russia.
On May 21, the government submitted to the parliament a proposal for a law on temporary measures to combat instrumentalized immigration.
Lately on the eastern border has been calm.
Kulishov also accused Finland of abandoning migrants on the Russian side, when Finland’s northernmost border crossing point, Inari Raja-Jooseppi, was closed at the end of November.
“Due to the crossing restrictions gradually introduced by Finland at its state border, the migration flow moved to the northern regions of Russia, which at the time of the closing of the last checkpoint Raja-Jooseppi-Lotta in November 2023 resulted in around 500 people packing up near the village of Alakurti in the Murmansk region, who in fact became hostages of Finnish propaganda and remained in the ‘closed Europe behind the gates in harsh winter conditions”, said Kulišov.
According to Kulišov, Russia offered migrants only “necessary help in returning to their countries of origin”. According to him, it “helped to stabilize the situation and prevent the increase of state border violations”.
In fact The Russian authorities helped the migrants to the Finnish border.
A few days before Raja-Joosep was closed in November, the Russian authorities told the local media that they had directed those who wanted to go to Finland from the Lytä border station near Kostamus towards the northern border crossing points in the Murmansk region.
According to the Russian authorities, the purpose was to “even out the flow of refugees” so that they would not all be concentrated in the territory of the Republic of Karelia. In revenge HS met an FSB employeewho met the migrants at the train station and escorted them to the car waiting in the parking lot.
In January, representatives of the Finnish Border Guard told HS, that it was “completely clear” that someone in Russia was helping the migrants. They did not take a position on whether it was a state entity or criminals.
Migrants arrived in Finland through the Salla border crossing point on November 21, 2023.
Customs auctioned bicycles left under customs control in Virolahti Vaalimaa on May 16, 2024. The bicycles had remained in Customs’ possession from asylum seekers who arrived at the eastern border.
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