{"id":29895,"date":"2023-02-28T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29895"},"modified":"2023-02-28T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:48:01","slug":"finland-has-begun-construction-of-a-200km-fence-on-the-russian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/02\/28\/finland-has-begun-construction-of-a-200km-fence-on-the-russian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland has begun construction of a 200km fence on the Russian border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terrain work would begin today \u201cwith forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March\u201d, the Finnish border guard said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 3km pilot project at the border crossing near Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, it added. Construction of a further 70km, mainly in southeastern Finland, will take place between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fence will be more than 3 metres tall with barbed wire at the top, and particularly sensitive areas will be equipped with night vision cameras, lights and loudspeakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"13e00da9-51a5-40e8-a2d9-0690aef0124e\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a1b0cd1b15435f01ecc9e7e0041123a9e21ec8b8\/0_0_5000_3333\/master\/5000.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=85&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"A senior border guard walks along a fence marking the boundary area between Finland and the Russian Federation near the border crossing of Pelkola, in Imatra, Finland. Photo taken on 18 November 2022.\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior border guard walks along a fence marking the boundary area between Finland and the Russian Federation near the border crossing of Pelkola, in Imatra, Finland. Photo taken on 18 November 2022. Photograph: Alessandro Rampazzo\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, Finland\u2019s borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences, mainly designed to stop livestock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the Finland-Russia border has \u201cworked well\u201d in the past, <strong>Brig Gen Jari Tolppanen<\/strong> told AFP in November that the war in Ukraine had changed the security situation \u201cfundamentally\u201d and that a border fence was \u201cindispensable\u201d to stop large-scale illegal entries from Russian territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrain work would begin today \u201cwith forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March\u201d, the Finnish border guard said in a statement. The 3km pilot project at the border crossing near Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9204,8290,5335,10453,10321,9635,7803,3457,5217,9634,5655,5180,11622,5251,3954,10415],"class_list":["post-29895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-border","tag-fence","tag-finland","tag-guard","tag-illegal","tag-imatra","tag-pilot","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-border","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-vision","tag-war","tag-will","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}