Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have now expanded their bases along the Finnish border, including in the city of Petrozavodsk just 100 miles from the border, the Wall Street Journal reported. The bases are meant to serve as a new army headquarters for tens of thousands of troops over the next several years, all for the singular purpose of facing off against NATO, Western military and intelligence officials warned. “When the troops are back [from Ukraine], they will be looking over the border at a country they consider an adversary,” Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies think tank in Moscow, told the WSJ.
Author: Ronny Reyes
Published at: 2025-04-29 21:27:34
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