Doable Polish plan to ship troops to Russian border will stoke tensions -Kremlin

MOSCOW/HELSINKI, Nov 29 (Reuters) – The Kremlin, commenting on media reviews that Poland plans to ship “troops” to Finland’s border with Russia, mentioned on Wednesday such a transfer may stoke tensions and that Russia would see it as a risk.

Poland was sending “a workforce of army advisors” to Finland, in response to “an official request for allied assist within the face of a hybrid assault on the Finnish border,” the pinnacle of Poland’s Nationwide Safety Bureau Jacek Siewiera mentioned in a put up on the X social media platform.

“A workforce of army advisors will present on-site data on border safety, additionally in operational phrases,” he mentioned.

Finland has closed its border with Russia after a sudden wave of refugee arrivals that Helsinki mentioned was orchestrated by Moscow, one thing Russia has denied.

Contacted by Reuters, Finnish authorities mentioned they weren’t instantly conscious of such plans and couldn’t remark.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, who visited his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on Nov. 20-21, was not instantly accessible for remark.

In a name with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned in reference to Poland’s doable transferring of troops to the border: “That is a fully redundant measure to make sure border safety, as a result of there isn’t a risk there.”

“The Finns should be clearly conscious that it will pose a risk to us – a rise within the focus of army models on our borders.”

Any deliberate deployment can be unprovoked and unjustified, mentioned Peskov.

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