"The accession of Finland to NATO, the continuation of the war in Ukraine, the deepening confrontation between Western countries and Russia, and increasing sanctions may strengthen Russian countermeasures against Finland”, says Antti Pelttari, director of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo).
A Supo assessment last year suggested that although the threat of intelligence and influencing operations targeting critical infrastructure has increased, a crippling effect on such operations in Finland remains unlikely in the immediate future. Marine infrastructure remains more vulnerable than land-based installations. While this assessment remains valid, Finland is well prepared to face such threats, Supo says in a release.
I’ve been to both Petsamo and Karelia, and trust me, we don’t want them back. To clean them up and bring them into modern standards of infrastructure would be ridiculously expensive. Not to mention the Russian population that has integrated in them over the last 80 years.
They need soldiers to fight a war in Ukraine and empty forests do not need infrastructure.