EU deploys additional border guards to Finland
- Finland is closing all but its northernmost crossing with Russia, after the arrival of hundreds of asylum seekers on the Finnish-Russian border. EU agency Frontex is now sending 50 border guards and other staff to help out.
- Defence Ministers from Nordic and Baltic nations discussed the issue, as well as Nato and Ukraine, at a meeting at Karlberg Palace, Stockholm.
- Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur says the presence of migrants on the border is ‘fully orchestrated’ by Russia. ”By accident, all these hundreds of migrants are ending up in one border crossing point in Finland, on bicycles, during winter time?”
Radio Sweden
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