Russia can’t attack NATO right now—ISW explains what the new border bases are really for
The think tank says Russia's new NATO-border bases prepare post-Ukraine-war force projection, not a near-term attack.
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Russia begins renovating Soviet-era garrison 160 km from Finnish border, satellite images reveal
New photographs obtained by Finland’s YLE show trees cleared, military trucks arriving, and construction underway at a long-abandoned base in Petrozavodsk as Moscow prepares infrastructure to eventually host up to 15,000 soldiers in the Republic of Karelia.
UK intel: Russia forming new army corps in northwest near Finnish, Estonian borders
As Russia builds the 44th Army Corps close to Finland and the Baltic nations, British intelligence says it remains to be seen if the formation will be left to garrison there or rapidly sent to join Russia's Ukraine invasion like previous newly-formed units.