Moscow is taking action against NATO forces in Finland and Norway in an attempt to secure its borders from this crucially important side.
"Testing of the new self-propelled artillery units has been completed and their mass production has already started," Sergei Semezhov, head of the Rostec company, told state news agency RIA NOVOSTI in an interview, adding that the first pilot batch will be delivered by the end of 2023.
"I believe they will appear there (in the Northern Military District) soon, as they need shells of this class to offer an advantage over Western artillery models in terms of the firing range," he said.
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The guns, with a range of up to 70 kilometres, are equipped with a modern 152 mm calibre 2A88 gun with a firing rate of more than 10 rounds per minute, as well as a modern automation system for weapon pointing, targeting, selection and navigation.
Plan to send migrants through Turkey to Europe
According to the German newspaper Bild, after the "hybrid war" with migrants on the border with Finland a few months ago, Russia has a plan to create similar chaos in another country.
Recall that about a month ago, Finland decided to close its border with Russia due to a deliberate influx of migrants from Russia.
Finland considers this to be Russia's revenge for the country's membership of NATO.
According to the German newspaper, it now appears that Russia is doing the same thing again, only in another part of Europe.
German sources report that Moscow has established a new airline in Turkey, with the intention of organising the flow of refugees to Europe via this NATO country, and thus causing chaos on the European continent.
The Polish security authorities are specifically warning of 'a new, organised influx of refugees via Russia and Belarus'.
One of the airlines identified in this operation is the Turkish "Southwind".
On Friday, the Belarusian authorities also announced that the airline will start flights between major cities in Turkey and Belarus.
The airline, which is Turkish in name, is not subject to EU sanctions and can therefore fly directly between Istanbul and Minsk.
Southwind is mainly portrayed as an airline with unusually low ticket prices and will transport migrants from Turkey to Belarus, who will then be sent to the European Union.
According to German experts, this is a Russian-controlled airline, although its headquarters are in Turkey.
Three of its aircraft and most of its staff come from Nordwind Airlines, a Russian airline based in Moscow, whose aircraft are banned from flying to the West.
With the establishment of a new airline in Turkey, Russian aircraft will be able to fly to Minsk within EU airspace, avoiding the need to bypass Russia.
Bild newspaper reports that the Russians established Southwind in Turkey to circumvent sanctions and that Polish authorities believe the company intends to transport migrants across the EU border.
According to the Southwind website, the airline is also planning flights from Turkey to Helsinki from April to early autumn.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been threatening to send migrants to Poland for several years.
"Belarusian border guards are helping migrants with ladders and cutters to get over the fence," said Latvian border police officer Kristina Yamik Yaros.
This summer, Poland increased the number of soldiers on the border with Belarus "as a deterrent," Defense Minister Marius Blaszak said in August.
"There is no doubt that the Belarusian regime is cooperating with the Kremlin and that the attacks on the Polish border are aimed at destabilising our country," he said.
The war in Ukraine will sooner or later spread elsewhere in the EU by other means, and then everything we know will literally be on another level.
