Finland closes all but its most northern border crossing to Russia due to migrant influx | DW News

Finland says it will close all but one of its border crossings with Russia amid a surge in asylum seekers. The decision comes after it shut several others last week. Helsinki is accusing Moscow of funneling people to its borders. Russia denies the claim.

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[joshuathompson]

Well, you know it’s 100% true because Russia officially denied it

[Nik]

If russia denies something, they definitely did it.

[blehoo]

I really don't mean to sound at all callous here but why should Finland feel guilty about migrants who are being neglected on the Russian side of the border.? As long as they are in Russia their welfare is surely Russia's responsibility and her's alone.

[veex]

It’s Russia’s responsibility to care for these immigrants, not Finland’s. why doesn’t Russia deal with them? Let’s get real here.

[lawden]

This feels like a repeat of the Polish border situation

[Vaijykone]

They're not asylum seekers, they're elements of demographic warfare. It isn't the first time and hostile parties - not limited to Russia - that wish to harm Finland will continue to do this as long as they have the ability to continue. Therefore the only way to stop this is to close the entire border and freezing the asylum system. Doing so would benefit other European nations that are and have been for years been targeted with demographic warfare. these include but are not limited to Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Hungary.

[rebjorn]

Moscow will always reply with stuff like "We have absolutely nothing to do with this"; "These allegations are absurd"; "Another classic example of Western Rusofobia".

[chessnut]

Quote: "From a humanitarian perspective".
When I hear that already.
The EU will never survive with this naive attitude.
The dictators of this world are laughing at us.
Unfortunately, rightly so.

[cidercik]

Solidarity with Finland.
It's a wonder that the borders have been open for this long!

[Dark_Brandon_]

those are not even russians, just like 1-2 years ago on Polish-belarus border

[alekaleale]

The disparity in reporting this issue on the Finnish border vs the reporting of the exact same issue in Poland or Lithuania near the Belarussian border is shocking. Suddenly everyone is so aware and well informed that it is Russia meddling in the European affairs again. It is depressing that the only perspective on Poland when it was dealing with the same problem (and much higher absolute numbers of people at the border) was 'racism', 'hostility' and being painted a backwarded, far-right country who did not share the same humanitarian values as the 'civilised' western neighbours. As a Pole who lives in Finland at the moment and has lived in the UK for a while, this makes my blood boil. Shame on all the 'journalists'.

[lashachakhunashvili]

It's a curse to be Russia's neighbour

[bullerfnis]

Russia imported them …. Russia’s problem! Let Russia deal with them. I’m tired of us putting gloves on to handle Russia takeoff the freaking gloves.!!!

[jamesdoman]

A hard call. Finland must do what it needs to do for itself in a hostile border environment. Period.

[alumnia]

😂 In reaction to Finland joining NATO last year, Putin said “we will take countermeasures”. Countermeasures are seen now … it’s sending poor people from Africa, Middle East and Central Asia on a bike to cross the border in freezing cold 😂😂😂 RuZZia is a joke

[Nubbe]

EU should do the same and send people over the border to Russia. The problem is that you can't find anyone that wants to go to Russia even if they are poor, starving or almost dead they see no hope in Russia.

[Asassi]

One important thing you failed to mention that the asylum seekers are not russians, but middle eastern

[jameswalker]

Russia telling Finland to use common sense. Oh the irony!

[sickbozo]

all countries should close their borders to russia

[pirozzamankhan]

Greetings from Lapland. The temperature was -29 C last week. Note, the temperature inside a freezer is -22 C