The General Staff of the Defense Forces refutes the vague claims that circulated in the Russian media yesterday, Wednesday, that airplanes had been launched from Finland to Russia.
In numerous in the Russian media on Wednesday, there was an allegation that an aerial attack was attempted on the Murmansk region.
Several news items referred to the vague claims of various Telegram channels that the drones were launched from Finland. He brought something In Finland, Iltalehti is highlighted in particularwho was the first to report on the subject.
The General Staff of the Finnish Defense Forces tells that the claims are not true. It is possibly Russia’s information influence.
– The claims that the planes were launched from Finland are not true. Finland’s territory has not been used and will not be used for alleged actions against Russia, the main staff writes to .
According to the General Staff, Finland and its allies are monitoring the situation.
– We do not open operational issues beyond this. It is good to note that this is a possible Russian influence on information and the claims presented should be viewed critically.
Silly rumor mill
On Tuesday, the governor of the Murmansk region Andrei Chibis told on his Telegram channel that there had been an attempt to attack the area with three drones. The planes were shot down, but the airports in the area stopped operating for a while because of the strike.
After this, on various Telegram channels such as on the relatively popular Mash news channel started circulating irrefutable and unclear claims that the Ukrainian planes had been launched from Finland.
The claim has been spread by numerous Russian media, for example the Russian government newspaper Rossiskaja Gazeta and controlled by the state television channel NTV.
Neither Mash nor other Telegram channels or news media actually said who or where the information about Finland’s role came from. Important Russian military bases are located in the Murmansk region.
The Russian leadership also commented on the issue by saying that claims on social media should be taken critically. The Kremlin Iltalehti reports on the comments.
However, there has been some disturbance related to air traffic in the region, as its airports have also had restrictions today, the state Ria Novosti reports.
The most popular Telegram channels and smaller Russian media constantly circulate colorful rumors, which can be difficult to distinguish from propaganda or opinion influence launched by state actors.