Finnish authorities are chopping down trees along the country’s snowy Russian border, making way for a 124-mile-long fence, 10 feet high and topped with barbed wire, that the government has started installing because it says it “cannot rely” on Moscow to maintain border security.
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The construction is part of a colossal effort by Finland and four other nations to fence off the European Union from Russia and its ally Belarus that has accelerated since the invasion of Ukraine a year ago.
