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Fear of the Russians, the Finns flock to volunteer combat training courses

2022-05-17 21:03:08Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Fear of the Russians, the Finns flock to volunteer combat training courses

On a windswept military island near Helsinki, people from all walks of life are spending their weekends doing military exercises as the number of volunteers increases and Finland prepares to join NATO to join protected by Russia.

Finland's defense forces have only about 13,000 personnel employed, but the country of 5.5 million boasts an impressive figure of 900,000 reservists with a strength of 280,000 wartime troops. Finland shares a 1,300-kilometer border with Russia.

For many of the participants in this weekend's training course on Santa's Island, Moscow's February 24 invasion of another neighbor, Ukraine, was the decisive factor in forcing them to sign up and prepare for the worst.

"These recent events in Ukraine were the final signs that it is necessary to be prepared in life, so that if something happens, the citizen is better equipped for a crisis," said 30-year-old engineer Ville Mukka after the training. for body-to-body double-edged sword.

He and the other volunteers wore camouflage uniforms, some wearing helmets with branches inserted into them, while training in hand-to-hand combat, explosives detection, and team movement in the woods. One week after the start of the war in Ukraine, enrollment for voluntary defense courses increased in Finland. "Interest in volunteer training was about 10 times higher than in normal years," said Ossi Hietala, 28, a representative of the Finnish National Defense Training Association.

While about 600 people typically enroll during a normal week, the number enrolled in courses in the last week of February jumped to 6,000. To meet the increased demand, the association received additional funding of nearly three million euros from the state in April.

Finland waged two bloody wars against the Soviet Union during World War II, with the Nordic country eventually handing over large tracts of land to its powerful eastern neighbor.


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