Event 32

{
  "attack_type": "Weaponized Migrants",
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "FI",
    "RU",
    "FI-RU"
  ],
  "border_violation_modes": [
    "Land"
  ],
  "category": "Border",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "The report is substantiated by multiple direct quotes from Telegram messages reviewed by Yle and corroborated by testimonies of affected persons. The story is published by Finland's national broadcaster Yle and references current events at the border.",
  "countries": [
    "Finland",
    "Russia"
  ],
  "country": "Finland",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Telegram messages seen by Yle indicate that Russian authorities have stopped letting asylum seekers cross the eastern border into Finland. Reports suggest Russian border guards are turning back migrants at border posts, with no new asylum seekers arriving in Finland after the morning. The reports are corroborated by interviews but remain partly unconfirmed.",
  "event_time_utc": "2023-11-16T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Telegram messages seen by Yle suggest Russian authorities stopped migrants at the border and are not allowing further crossings.",
    "An interviewed asylum seeker says friends have been turned back from the Russian side and not allowed to enter Finland.",
    "STT was unable to independently verify all details from sources.",
    "Screenshot of a Telegram message: 'мigrantов на первом посту под Выборгом. ... их остановили и не пропускали дальше' (migrants stopped at first post near Vyborg and not allowed to proceed).",
    "Interview with asylum seeker: friends turned back at the border, STT not able to fully confirm.",
    "'Turvapaikanhakijoita ei ole saapunut aamun jälkeen' – no new arrivals after the morning, confirming reports of sudden stoppage.",
    "Telegram messages reviewed by Yle indicate Russian border guards are preventing asylum seekers from crossing.",
    "Statements from migrants confirm that individuals have been turned back at the Russian side.",
    "No new asylum seekers have crossed the border into Finland since the morning according to border officials."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Venäjä ei enää päästä turvapaikanhakijoita itärajan yli",
    "STT:n haastatteleman turvapaikanhakijan mukaan hänen Venäjän puolella olevia ystäviään on käännytetty rajalta.",
    "Telegram-viestien mukaan Venäjän rajaviranomaiset ovat pysäyttäneet turvapaikanhakijat eivätkä päästä heitä enää rajan yli Suomeen.",
    "Turvapaikanhakijoita ei ole saapunut aamun jälkeen",
    "Ylen näkemät Telegram-viestit kertovat, että Venäjän viranomaiset eivät enää päästä turvapaikanhakijoita Suomen itärajalle.",
    "Turvapaikanhakijoita ei ole saapunut aamun jälkeen Suomen itärajalle.",
    "Ylen näkemien Telegram-viestien perusteella Venäjän viranomaiset eivät enää päästä turvapaikanhakijoita rajan yli Suomeen.",
    "Turvapaikanhakijoilta ei ole saapunut aamun jälkeen"
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://yle.fi/a/74-20060560"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Weaponized Migration",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Telegram messages seen by Yle suggest Russian authorities stopped migrants at the border and are not allowing further crossings.",
            "An interviewed asylum seeker says friends have been turned back from the Russian side and not allowed to enter Finland.",
            "STT was unable to independently verify all details from sources."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Ylen näkemät Telegram-viestit: Venäjä ei enää päästä turvapaikanhakijoita itärajan yli",
  "location_text": "Finnish-Russian eastern border",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "captured_at": "2025-11-23T16:04:37.193762Z",
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "hash": "85fb23d536063aab2d65bd52cdfe0166d607bbef89231db9d4ba1978b7c58cc1",
      "mime": "image/jpeg",
      "origin": "restore",
      "size_bytes": 2294228,
      "source_url": null,
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_32_1763913877_77ec9abe.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Migrants",
  "primary_ref_links": [
    "https://x.com/akihheikkinen/status/1725097438040527241"
  ],
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://yle.fi/a/74-20060560",
    "https://x.com/akihheikkinen/status/1725097438040527241"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Russian authorities are reportedly blocking asylum seekers from crossing into Finland, according to Telegram messages and migrant testimony.",
  "url": "https://yle.fi/a/74-20060560"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "Weaponized Migration",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "FI-RU",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "FI",
  "Date": "16-Nov-23",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Migrants",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Now some Migrants are being directed to Norway borders. \"Migrants are being instructed/turned (wording bit vague here) away by russian border guards from Finnish border, directed towards Norway now\"",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://yle.fi/a/74-20060560 and https://x.com/akihheikkinen/status/1725097438040527241 ",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}