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Finnish government aims to accelerate eastern border fence effort

The plan is to build stretches of fencing totalling around 200 km in length, along the 1,300-km border's most crucial areas.

A stretch of fencing along Finland's border with Russia, featuring two officers standing in front of a Border Guard van next to the fence.
The first portion of fencing, a three-kilometre stretch along the border in Imatra, South Karelia, was completed last year. File photo taken in October 2023. Image: Kare Lehtonen / Yle
  • Yle News
  • STT

The Finnish government has proposed to allocate an extra 86 million euros for the Border Guard this year. The majority of the funds would go towards expediting the construction of fencing along Finland's border with Russia.

Most of the extra funding, around 74 million euros, would be allocated to accelerating the border barrier effort, according to an interior ministry press release.

The proposed measure was part of the government's first supplementary budget proposal for this year, which was submitted to Parliament on Thursday.

However, the money would be reallocated from next year's fence project funds, according to the proposal. In other words, the project's overall budget would not increase with the shift of funds.

The ministry's release did not specify how the plans could affect the fence project's schedule, however.

Hybrid attack prevention

The fencing is meant to protect Finland from hybrid attacks orchestrated by Russia. The government of former prime ministerSanna Marin (SDP) made the initial decision to build the fencing in an effort to prevent large-scale illegal border crossings.

Finlandshut down all eastern border crossing points after the government deemed that Russian authorities had systematically delivered third-country asylum seekers to the border. These types of crossings started last August.

The eastern border closure is set to expire on 14 April, but the government may decide to extend that date.

It has been previously reported that Finland plans to construct fencing along the most crucial areas of the eastern border during this and next year.

The plan is to build stretches of fencing totalling around 200 km in length, leaving the majority of the country's 1,300 km eastern border unfenced. The government has justified that plan by noting that a significant portion of the border area would be difficult for large groups of people to penetrate.

The first portion of fencing, a three-kilometre stretch along the border in Imatra, South Karelia,was completed last year. The next four-kilometre section in the effort will be constructed in Salla, Lapland.

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