Troops from Ukraine: The Russian Federation is preparing to fight with Finland - NYT (satellite images)

To spread: military infrastructure is being actively constructed near the border with Finland: tents, fighter shelters and warehouses for military equipment. The attack on a NATO member depends on the outcome of the war in Ukraine, intelligence representatives are convinced. This was reported by The New York Times, analyzing the satellite images of the border area. Russian troops strengthen the bases and build military infrastructure near the border with Finland.

These actions can reveal their strategy as to what will happen after the war in Ukraine. The pictures confirmed by NATO representatives show rows of new tents, warehouses for storage of military equipment, shelter for fighters. On the helicopter base is permanent construction. Dozens of aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have recently been noticed on the basis of the Arctic less than 160 kilometers from the Finnish border.

More than a hundred new tents appeared about a year ago in Kamianets 65 kilometers from Finland. In the village of Alakurtti in the southwest of the Murmansk region and Petrozavodsk in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation noticed new buildings for dozens of vehicles. Recently, new tents and military equipment have appeared on the basis of about 130 kilometers from Estonia. "The Russians are expanding brigades to divisions.

The number of units near our borders will increase by thousands," said Finnish Analytist Black Bird Group Emil Casthelma. According to the expert, serious changes in the situation on the Finnish border will take place in the next few years. The result and end of the war in Ukraine are of great importance in this. Western intelligence evaluates the current stages of military expansion as large -scale and long -term.

NATO is convinced that the situation is different from the accumulation of forces along the border with Ukraine before a full -scale invasion in February 2022. "Russia has very few troops along the border, the Finns insist that it does not pose a special threat," the authors say. Finland joined the Alliance two years ago, Moscow perceives this step as a threat. The border between the two countries over 1200 kilometers is the longest NATO collision line with Russia.

Military analysts prophesy that it can soon become a hot spot. In the event of a hot phase of war in Ukraine, Russia will transfer thousands of soldiers to the Finnish border. According to one high -ranking NATO representative, despite the end of the war in Ukraine, Russia will continue to transfer troops to the north. The Kremlin considers the Arctic the key to the status of a great state. We will remind, Finland wants to increase the age of reservists of the army to 65 years.