{"id":1307108,"date":"2025-10-16T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-is-moving-troops-to-eu-borders-finnish-defense-minister-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:30:30","slug":"russia-is-moving-troops-to-eu-borders-finnish-defense-minister-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-is-moving-troops-to-eu-borders-finnish-defense-minister-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is moving troops to EU borders: Finnish Defense Minister warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finnish Defense Minister Antti H\u00e4kkanen warned that Moscow is increasing its military presence near the borders of the European Union and is preparing for a possible new wave of aggression \u2014 even when the current conflict in Ukraine ends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/15\/europe\/ukraine-hegesth-firepower-coming-nato-intl-hnk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made<\/a> this statement at a meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, CNN reports.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Russia is indeed ramping up its military efforts for the second phase of its potential aggression. After the end of the war in Ukraine, there are real threats to NATO,&#8221; H\u00e4kkanen said.<\/p>\n<p> He emphasized that the modernization of weapons and the concentration of Russian forces near European borders is a powerful signal of increasing risk.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the minister announced that Finland will join the PURL initiative, through which American military support for Ukraine will be purchased. According to him, a new financial and military assistance package for Kyiv should be announced this week.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zahroza-nad-yevropoiu-moskva-aktyvizuie-provokatsii-ta-dezinformatsiiu\/\">Russia is actively forming the psychological and informational basis for a possible future war against NATO.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, the former head of US Army Forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges, stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zhodnoho-kalininhrada-shcho-stanetsia-z-rosiyskymy-bazamy-iakshcho-rf-napade-na-nato\/\">if Russia decides to start a war against a NATO member country, the military response will be immediate and devastating<\/a> . According to him, the Alliance&#8217;s strikes will destroy key Russian military facilities &#8211; including in Kaliningrad and Sevastopol &#8211; in the first hours after the conflict begins.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish Defense Minister Antti H\u00e4kkanen warned that Moscow is increasing its military presence near the borders of the European Union and is preparing for a possible new wave of aggression \u2014 even when the current conflict in Ukraine ends. He made this statement at a meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, CNN reports. &#8220;Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1307100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76885],"class_list":["post-1307108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}