Russia is expanding its military infrastructure near the border with Finland, in which NATO officials describe as the early stages of a long -term accumulation, the New York Times reported Monday.
The construction follows Russia’s announcement that his army would grow and create new units in response to Finland and Sweden, joining NATO after the invasion of Ukraine 2022 of Moscow from Moscow.
According to reports, satellite images show Russian helicopters on a base near the Arctic city of Murmansk, its first appearance there in 20 years, according to NYT. The base is about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the borders of Finland and Norway.
In the Olenya Air Base, near Olenogorsk, south of Murmansk, satellite photos show a significant increase in military airplanes. The Air Base houses TU-22 long-range bombers.
Further south in the city of Alakurti, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) of the Finnish border, new buildings have appeared and, according to reports, they can house military vehicles boxes. Similar construction was detected in Petrozavodsk, the capital of the nearby Republic of Karelia.
Last year, more than 130 store stores appeared last year in a restored base of the Cold-Tere War in Kamenka, located in the Leningrad region in the northwest of Russia about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the Finnish border.
Finland, which now shares the longest border of NATO with Russia, closed its terrestrial border crossing with Russia in December 2023 after an increase reported in asylum seekers that Helsinki blamed the Kremlin.
Finnish defense officials fear that Russia can triple their presence of troops near their shared border within five years once the fighting in Ukraine decreases.
“The increase in military force in our nearby areas will occur after the fighting in Ukraine calm,” the Ministry of Ministry of Defense, Janne Kuusela, told NYT.
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