Finland closes all but one of its borders with Russia

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The Kremlin has voiced regret about Finland’s decision to close the checkpoints and rejected Finnish authorities’ claims that Russia has encouraged the influx of migrants at the border to punish Finland for joining NATO.

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00:00 Finland says it will close three of its four remaining border crossings with Russia at midnight on Friday,

00:05 accusing Moscow of trying to orchestrate a migrant crisis.

00:10 Since the beginning of August, around 700 asylum seekers have entered Finland by the eastern border,

00:15 local officials say, and Helsinki says Moscow is organizing the influx.

00:21 Tensions between Russia and Finland have been rising since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,

00:28 an attack that led Helsinki to join the NATO alliance in April.

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