00:00 Russia appears to be employing a known hybrid warfare tactic to artificially create a migrant
00:10 crisis on the Finnish border.
00:13 In its latest Russian offensive campaign assessment, the Institute for the Study of War says Russia's
00:18 apparent hybrid warfare tactic on the Russian-Finnish border is similar to Russia's and Belarus'
00:24 creation of a migrant crisis on the Polish border in 2021 and is likely similarly aimed
00:30 at destabilizing NATO.
00:33 Finnish authorities closed border checkpoints on Finland's southeastern border with Russia
00:39 after the Finnish border guard reported that an influx of about 300 asylum seekers, mostly
00:46 from Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Syria, arrived at the Finnish border from Russia since September
00:53 2023.
00:55 During just a two-day period in November, there were as many migrant crossings as between
01:00 mid-July to November.
01:02 Finnish Prime Minister said that Russian border guards are escorting or transporting migrants
01:07 to the Finnish border, the claim denied by the Kremlin.
01:12 The Institute for the Study of War previously assessed that the Kremlin enabled or possibly
01:17 directly controlled Belarus' artificial creation of a migrant crisis on its border with Poland
01:25 here in 2021, when Belarus' security personnel aided thousands of Middle Eastern migrants
01:32 in crossing the Belarus border to Poland.
01:34 The Kremlin exploited the manufactured crisis in 2021 to falsely accuse NATO of aggression
01:41 against Belarus.
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