Finland is concerned that Russia would attack NATO’s eastern flank following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has been reported.

Citing an alleged defense report by the Government of Finland, the Finnish newspaper Illetalehti said that the resources of the unnamed Alliance had warned that Moscow intended to attack the countries of Finland and neighboring countries, adding Baltic states in the future, specifying a delay.

The Tabloid referred to how Russia rehearsed an attack against Norway, Finland and the Baltic countries of his Training of the Zapad Army in 2017 and that Moscow did not “abandon his invasion plan and needed to take it out after the war in Ukraine. “

When contacted via Newsweek, the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) said in A that it would not comment on media relations “on rehearsals imaginable in other countries” and that such rehearsals “are general for any soldier”.

“There is no rapid risk in the army for Finland,” he said. Newsweek contacted NATO and the Russian Ministry of Defense to obtain comments by email.

World leaders have said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression would not stop with the invasion of Ukraine following previous warnings that Moscow would seek to exploit security flashpoints in Europe as far south as Georgia, which borders Turkey.

According to Article Five of the NATO Charter, a strike against a member would cause a collective response. Defence Minister Goris Pistorius said in June that Putin “could even attack a NATO country” and that Europe “must be in a position for war until 2029”

In March, NATO directed Nordic training 2024 led through the American vice -American Douglas Perry, in which 20,000 were transferred in northern Norway and Finnish Lapia.

Perry told the Finnish paper that Russia was designated as a direct threat to the alliance which practiced operations required “to repel the Russian invaders.”

Micael Bydén, former commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, warned in October that in the coming years, Russia can attack the countries of the Baltic Sea region, which nicknamed a Lake of NATO, after the accession of Sweden and Finland in Finland in The alliance.

The report cited through Ilalehti said that the invasion of Ukraine through Putin “has shown that Russia is in a position to take significant hazards regardless of losses,” according to a translation.

The newspaper said that NATO Resources said that Russia can plan a simultaneous attack in other parts of the Eastern Flanco of the Alliance. These come with the 14th body of the Army of Russia, moving the Russian city of Murmansk on the Norwegian coast of the sea, the earth and the air.

Russia may also send troops to Finnish Lapland to capture Ival airport and Finland may be attacked via Russian missile forces stationed on the Kola Peninsula, the publication said.

Unnamed NATO sources also said that Moscow would try to create a buffer zone in Northern Lapland and Finnmark in Norway, while further south, Russian missile forces would target the southern coast of Finland and southeastern Finland, the outlet reported.

The sixth Russian Army can visit to enter Estonia and Latvia with an attack on tanks, artillery and missiles to capture the capitals Tallinn and Riga, according to the report.

Meanwhile, Lithuania could face an attack through Belarus as Moscow seeks to establish a land connection between the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. This could lead to the capture of the so-called Suwalki corridor considered to be the flashpoint of any conflict between Moscow and NATO, per the report.

In addition, Russian missile forces stationed in Kaliningrad and its Baltic fleet would attack Gotland so that it would be difficult to maintain NATO floor forces in the Baltic from Sweden’s direction, the tabloid reported.

“Russia’s security thinking reflects the pursuit of strategic depth and the desire to create a single buffer zone in Europe, from the Arctic through the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea to the Mediterranean,” the Finnish government report said, according to the paper.

Henrik Gahmberg, spokesman for the Defense Command, said in a statement: “Finnish defense forces will not comment on the cases of the Court of Media regarding imaginable trials in other countries.

“The trials are general for any army personnel, and the FDF will not observe on any imaginable operational perception if such tests have occurred,” he said.

“There is no rapid risk in the Army for Finland. We monitor the evolution of the stage and take the mandatory measures, because we do not care about operational perceptions in our protection environment. “

An unnamed NATO source told the newspaper Iltalehti: “In 2017, Russia rehearsed an attack on Norway, Finland and the Baltic countries in its Zapad exercise. The Russians have not abandoned their invasion plan and want to carry it out after the war in Ukraine.”

Micael Bydén, former commander of the Swedish Armed Forces: “Putin’s purpose is to take the Baltic Sea. “

Finnish defense forces have declared that “he will not comment on the cases of the media regarding imaginable essays in other countries.

“Rehearsals are general for any army, and the FDF will not observe any of the imaginable operational perceptions if such repetitions have occurred. “

Speculation about Russia having a long-term plan to invade NATO after Ukraine is likely to continue, but the alliance has warned of the immediate threat posed by Moscow’s so-called hybrid attacks.

These come with the supposed cut of power and communication cables in the Baltic Sea, which Berlin described as a “sabotage. “

Finland has taken an oil truck that belongs to the so -called “shadow fleet” of Russia, which was suspected of having broken five submarine cables on Christmas day.

When describing the demanding situations in the short term that Moscow raises to the Alliance, the Under Secretary General of the NATO and the leader of hybrids and cyberrels, one of those attacks “would understand the news of Sky” “.

“There is a genuine perspective of one of those attacks that cause a really extensive number of patients or very genuinely extensive economic damage,” he said.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek journalist in London in the United Kingdom. Its objective is Russia and Ukraine, in specific the war introduced through Moscow. It also covers other geopolitical spaces, adding China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 by International Business Times and, as well as in English, meets Russian and French. You can touch Brendan by sending an email to B. cole@newsweek. com or follow him in his account x @brendanmarkcole.