00:00 Finland says it will close three of its four remaining border crossings with Russia at midnight on Friday,
00:05 accusing Moscow of trying to orchestrate a migrant crisis.
00:10 Since the beginning of August, around 700 asylum seekers have entered Finland by the eastern border,
00:15 local officials say, and Helsinki says Moscow is organizing the influx.
00:21 Tensions between Russia and Finland have been rising since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,
00:28 an attack that led Helsinki to join the NATO alliance in April.
00:32 [WHOOSH]
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