Finland has started to construct a wired fence at its Russian border, fearing retaliation from Russia after the Nordic country joined NATO less than two weeks ago.
The government decided last year to construct the barrier following its NATO application, primarily in case Russia moved to flood the border with migrants.
Finland aims to guard against a repeat of events on the European Union’s eastern frontier in Poland in winter 2021, when the bloc accused neighboring Belarus—a staunch Russian ally—of engineering a crisis by flying in migrants from the Middle East, giving them visas, and pushing them across the border….