Back in November, Finland closed part of its border and accused Russia of trying to stir up trouble by sending migrants on bicycles to border crossings. Why bicycles? It seems that Russia has been bringing these migrants across the entire country (none of them are Russian) and then giving them bikes to travel the last few miles on their own. There’s video of Russian authorities handing out bikes from the back of a van.
There are no Russians trying to cross the border. They’re sending people without necessary travel documents from countries like Yemen, Somalia and Syria.
Russia is taking advantage of poor people in the middle of winter, in freezing temperatures. 4/ pic.twitter.com/WMWE08VP8L
— Emil Kastehelmi (@emilkastehelmi) November 19, 2023
Last year the total number added up to about 1,000 migrants but Finland saw it as a kind of hybrid warfare by Russia. Not enough to…
