Event 43

{
  "attack_type": "Weaponized Migrants",
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "FI",
    "RU",
    "FI-RU"
  ],
  "border_violation_modes": [
    "Land"
  ],
  "category": "Border",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "The evidence is a social media post that quotes an external news source, accompanied by a photo and a timestamp, but is not direct official confirmation.",
  "countries": [
    "Finland",
    "Russia"
  ],
  "country": "Finland",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "A post claims that the Russian FSB temporarily housed migrants in a hotel before pushing them over the Finnish border, describing the process as a means to provoke the EU.",
  "event_time_utc": "2023-11-21T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Screenshot of a Twitter/X post showing claim with timestamp and a location photo.",
    "Screenshot of post and direct quote stating Russian FSB involvement in moving migrants over the Finnish border."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "This is the hotel where the Russian FSB put up the migrants before pushing them over the Finnish border.",
    "So simple, to poke the EU."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/borders/2022",
    "https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/borders/202..."
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Weaponized Migration",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Screenshot of a Twitter/X post showing claim with timestamp and a location photo."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "follow_up_notes": "??Finland ??FSB Migrant Hotel. \"This is the hotel where the Russian FSB put up the migrants before pushing them over the Finnish border.\"",
  "headline": "Russian FSB alleged to facilitate migrant transfers across Finnish border",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_43_1763914216_2a1baa6e.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Migrants",
  "primary_ref_links": [
    "https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/borders/fsb-arranges-transport-to-the-border-motel-in-kandalaksha-claims/122790"
  ],
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://x.com/CarolineGruyter/status/1727041466764337579",
    "https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/borders/fsb-arranges-transport-to-the-border-motel-in-kandalaksha-claims/122790"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Hotel reportedly used by Russian FSB to house migrants prior to crossing the Finnish border as a hybrid tactic against the EU.",
  "url": "https://x.com/CarolineGruyter/status/1727041466764337579"
}

{
  "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": "21-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)": "https://x.com/CarolineGruyter/status/1727041466764337579 and https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/borders/fsb-arranges-transport-to-the-border-motel-in-kandalaksha-claims/122790 ",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "??Finland ??FSB Migrant Hotel. \"This is the hotel where the Russian FSB put up the migrants before pushing them over the Finnish border.\"",
  "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)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}