【Provocation? New NATO Army Headquarters Just 300 km from St. Petersburg】On October 3, Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen revealed that Finland has established a new NATO Army Headquarters, located at the Finnish Army's Mikkelä Command, just 300 kilometers from Russia's second-largest city and Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg. Hakkanen stated that combining Finland's and the NATO Army Headquarters will achieve the best coordination between Finland's national defense and NATO's defense. The new headquarters will be responsible for planning, preparing, and commanding NATO Army operations in the Nordic region, under the leadership of the Norfolk Joint Forces Command. In peacetime, it will conduct exercises and other activities; in times of crisis, it will be responsible for commanding military operations in the Nordic region. The headquarters staff will consist of personnel from NATO alliance countries as well as the Finnish Defence Forces.
On October 2, Russian President Putin spoke at the "Valdai" International Discussion Club meeting about Finland joining NATO, stating that Russia had not previously deployed troops in the area bordering Finland, but now it did. NATO
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