Event 76

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "FI-RU"
  ],
  "category": "Uncategorized",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Based on BBC and Yle reporting, direct migrant testimonies, and consistent details about movement toward military camps near Ukraine.",
  "countries": [
    "Russia",
    "Finland",
    "Ukraine"
  ],
  "country": "Russia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "A report states that Russian authorities are recruiting migrants, including those near the Finnish border, to fight in Ukraine, sometimes using coercion. Migrants have reportedly been taken to military camps close to Ukraine.",
  "event_time_utc": "2023-12-11T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Testimony from a Somali migrant coerced by Russian authorities.",
    "Reports of migrants transferred by bus to military camps close to the Ukraine border.",
    "Statements about increased recruitment activity near the Finnish border."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "A Somali migrant in the BBC's Russian-language editorial unit told the BBC that Russia is coercing migrants into becoming war mercenaries.",
    "Migrants taken to military camps near Ukraine",
    "I have also spoken to other sources and local journalists who say many migrants have been taken by bus to a military camp situated kilometres away from the Ukrainian border.",
    "The recruitment of foreign mercenaries is not new, but in the past few weeks the situation has intensified, especially near the Finnish border."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://yle.fi/a/74-20063837"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Testimony from a Somali migrant coerced by Russian authorities.",
            "Reports of migrants transferred by bus to military camps close to the Ukraine border.",
            "Statements about increased recruitment activity near the Finnish border."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "follow_up_notes": "Yle has obtained documents of ??Syrians who tried to get across ??Finnish border, being recruited by ??for the war in ??Ukraine",
  "headline": "BBC: Russia recruiting migrants near Finnish border to fight in Ukraine",
  "location_text": "Finnish-Russian border",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_76_1763915268_21d5b87d.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Yle has obtained documents of ??Syrians who tried to get across ??Finnish border, being recruited by ??for the war in ??Ukraine",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://yle.fi/a/74-20063837"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Reports indicate Russia is coercing migrants near the Finnish border into military service for fighting in Ukraine.",
  "url": "https://yle.fi/a/74-20063837"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "",
  "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": "11-Dec-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://yle.fi/a/74-20063837 ",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "Yle has obtained documents of ??Syrians who tried to get across ??Finnish border, being recruited by ??for the war in ??Ukraine",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Yle has obtained documents of ??Syrians who tried to get across ??Finnish border, being recruited by ??for the war in ??Ukraine",
  "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)": ""
}