В предыдущий раз Рая-Йосееппи был закрыт в военные годы

Восточная граница Финляндии остается закрытой до 13 декабря.

Международный пограничный пункт Рая-Йоосеппи в Северной Лапландии закрылся в 14 часов. В предыдущий раз Рая-Йосееппи был закрыт в военные годы.

В соответствии с решением Государственного совета, принятым вчера, пограничные пункты на восточной границе будут закрыты до 13 декабря, если до этого не будет принято новое решение. Решение не касается грузоперевозок через железнодорожный пункт Вайниккала.

Пока пограничные пункты закрыты, прошения о предоставлении убежища можно подавать только в портах и аэропортах.

Пограничная служба сообщает, что сегодня границу не пересекали просители убежища из России.

Slava Ukraine

Photo: NATO.

"Rasmussen said the cause of Ukraine’s Nato membership cannot be deferred again next year. The time has come to take the next step and extend an invitation for Ukraine to join Nato. We need a new European security architecture in which Ukraine is in the heart of Nato", said a former Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. 

He has put forward a proposal for Ukraine to join the military alliance but stripped of the territories occupied by Russia.

Rasmussen has long worked alongside Andriy Yermak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, particularly ahead of the last Nato summit in Vilnius this year that ended with no invitation for Ukraine to join.

According to Guardian the two men are again broadly discussing Ukraine’s place in a new European security architecture, including practical questions around the extent of Ukraine’s Nato membership.

Rasmussen, who was Nato’s secretary general between 2009 and 2014, insisted that a plan for partial Ukraine membership would not symbolise a freezing of the conflict, but would instead mark a determination to warn Russia that it cannot prevent Ukraine joining the western defensive alliance.

Nato is due to hold its 75th anniversary summit in Washington next summer, and the issue of Ukraine’s future membership is bound to be a major topic.

Ukraine’s leadership was left bitterly disappointed (according to Guardian) when, under US and German pressure, Nato at its summit this year issued a statement saying Ukraine would be offered an invitation when conditions allowed, effectively rejecting Ukraine’s request to be given a specific date.

Instead, Ukraine’s relationship with Nato was elevated on the margins by setting up a Ukraine-Nato council and through an agreement that Nato members bilaterally would offer security guarantees to Ukraine.

Russians want "war-reparations" from Ukraine

”Rains in to Putin’s Granary”, 2022, by Kaj Stenvall Paintings.

Russians are ready to support an end to the war if Putin decides so. They want to negotiate with
Ukraine.

They want lands as some sort of "war reparation", otherwise there won't be a majority for peace.

Most Russians would support an immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine,

follows from a Levada Center survey.

However, the majority of respondents do not agree that the territories seized by Russia should be returned to Ukraine.

As part of a survey about the war, which Levada conducts every month, respondents were randomly divided into two equal groups. The first group was asked: “If President Vladimir Putin decided to end the military conflict with Ukraine this week, would you support or not support this decision?”

Answers

37% - definitely support

33% - I would rather support it

12% - definitely won't support

9% - I would rather not support it

9% - difficult to answer

The second group of respondents was asked the question: “If this week President Vladimir Putin decided to end the military conflict with Ukraine and return the annexed territories of Ukraine, would you support or not support this decision?”

Answers

16% - definitely support

18% - I would rather support it

19% - I would rather not support

38% - definitely won't support

10% - I find it difficult to answer

When asked whether hostilities should continue or peace negotiations should begin, more than half of respondents answered that they were in favor of negotiations.

Russians support the Russian army

Three quarters of those surveyed said they support “the actions of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine.” Among respondents in the age group 18-24 years old, 62% said this, among respondents over 55 years old - 82%.