The military estimated that in the event of a “freezing of the conflict”, the situation would proceed to absorb part of the Russian army and Russia would not be able to full retreat from this crisis.
A study by the Department of Military Intelligence of the Finnish Armed Forces published on Thursday assumed that "After the end of the war, Russia will most likely give precedence to the north-western direction and will aim for faster implementation of reforms‘.
In addition, it stressed – Russia intends to influence Finland's decisions in the field of safety policy.
Finnish general warns
It was besides recalled that Russia, leading the war in Ukraine, announced a plan to importantly grow its army, at the same time establishing fresh units and command structures including the renewed Leningrad Military District, adjacent to Finland. “It will be a challenge to accomplish this goal in Russia’s current demographic downturn, but it is not impossible,” said General Turunen in his statements to STT.
The study of the intelligence department of the general staff of the Finnish military besides acknowledged that Russia's goal is to "destabilise society with non-military measures to trigger crisis action".
Gen. Turunen noted that today The nonsubjective of hybrid impact is to “create an asymmetrical situation in which the opponent does not know precisely what is happening‘. He recalled that in Western countries war and peace were traditionally seen as different periods. Russia in turn, as he pointed out, "is in favour of a conflict that remains in the alleged grey region where the border between war and peace is blurred".
— No 1 can find erstwhile specified a limit will be exceeded," said the Finnish commander, referring to recent incidents of harm to offshore transmission infrastructure in the Gulf of Finland, which is suspected by a civilian tanker, which is assumed to belong to a Russian "shadow float".
Russia's primary nonsubjective is, as the study states, to accept the West's division of spheres of influence, which was forcefully imposed on east Europe.
