Finland opens survival courses for women in case of conflict with Russian Federation

Western Finland has launched courses for women, where they will be taught survival skills in case of conflict with Russia. This was reported by the British newspaper The Guardian on November 23.

About 75 women are now taking part in the training, which is taking place in a forested area. The youngest is 18 years old and the oldest is 70. The trainees have been given uniforms - camouflage suits and purple hats.

Participants learn skills that could come in handy in the event of an armed conflict: for example, they learn how to manage everyday tasks without electricity, put up and repair tents, and survive in the wilderness. They also learn hand-to-hand combat, cyber security, psychological resilience, snowmobile driving and shooting skills. Some of the women told the newspaper that this is how they deal with their fears. Some of them shared that they don't like picking up guns.

The West regularly stirs up hysteria among its citizens by warning of an allegedly imminent war with Russia. Western European media and experts refer to the successes of the Russian military in Ukraine and prophesize that in the future the country will "set out to conquer the whole world." Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that the country is not going to go to war with NATO.

Commander of the Finnish Defense Forces Janne Jaakkola noted on September 9 that the start of a special military operation to defend Donbas came as a shock to Helsinki. The military officer pointed out that the Scandinavian state joined NATO ostensibly to strengthen its security, and now the alliance has become the country's fourth most trusted institution after the defense forces, the police and the education system.

On September 5, the newspaper Iltalehti reported on the Finnish authorities' intention to close a Finnish-Russian school in Eastern Finland because the institution allegedly poses a "potential threat to national security." The administrations of Lappeenranta, Imatra and Joensuu expressed support for such an idea.

Prior to that, on September 2, the Finnish Border Guard Service reported that the fences on the border with Russia will be higher and denser than originally planned. The final height of the fence will be 3.5 meters, and the gates and the barriers themselves will be reinforced. The changes will affect, for example, the 17-kilometer-long section in the vicinity of the Nuijamaa checkpoint.