![]() The Finnish rail improvements around Tornio on the Swedish border are one example. ![]() Now Finland is part of Nato, and Sweden will be joining soon.Īs the alliance reshapes its strategy in response to Russia’s campaign, access to these new territories and their infrastructure opens ways for allies to watch and contain Moscow, and an unprecedented chance to treat the whole of northwest Europe as one bloc, nearly two dozen diplomats and military and security experts told Reuters. Until February 2022, the €37mil (RM187.9mil) electrification of this short stretch of rail – the only rail link between Sweden and Finland – simply promised locals a chance to catch a night train down to the bright lights of Stockholm.Īfter Russia invaded Ukraine, that changed. “We will be removing some 1,200 of these one by one,” says site manager Mika Hakkarainen, holding up a rivet. ![]() ![]() HIGH above a railway bridge spanning a foaming river just outside the Arctic Circle, Finnish construction workers hammer away at a project that will smooth the connections from Nato’s Atlantic coastline in Norway to its new border with Russia. ![]()
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