Finland keeps just 1 border crossing open with Russia amid surge of asylum seekers

Russia must stop sending asylum seekers across its frontier into Finland in what amounts to a "hybrid attack," Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Friday, after the Nordic nation temporarily shut all border passenger crossings but one.

Finland keeps just 1 border crossing open with Russia amid surge of asylum seekers
A set of gates at the Raja-Jooseppi international border crossing point in Inari, Finland.

Russia must stop sending asylum seekers across its frontier into Finland in what amounts to a "hybrid attack," Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Friday, after the Nordic nation temporarily shut all border passenger crossings but one.