Finland has completed the construction of a 200-kilometer barrier on separate sections of its border with Russia, Yle reports.

The total cost of the project, which began in 2023, was 356 million euros, and its annual maintenance will cost 1.5 million euros.

This barrier is a metal mesh structure equipped with video surveillance cameras, spotlights, and loudspeakers, along which a road is stretched for patrols.

The barrier was built to prevent illegal border crossings.

Several other NATO member countries are also engaged in parallel border fortifications.

The Baltic states are building the Baltic Defence Line, a system of anti-tank barriers, trenches, bunkers, and other defensive structures along their borders with Russia and Belarus. Estonia has already built 110 km of the planned 135 km of barrier, and the remaining 25 km will be ready by 2027. Latvia has erected a 280 km barrier on the Russian border; roads, bridges, towers, and engineering structures are now being built there as well. Earlier, Latvia built a 145 km barrier on the Belarusian border.

Poland is implementing the Eastern Shield project, which is about 700 km long along the border with Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of Russia, with a budget of about 2.3 billion euros. The project envisages the construction of anti-tank barriers, fortifications, video surveillance systems, and military infrastructure.

Norway also will fortify its 198-kilometer border with Russia, installing barriers in several sections, as well as modern sensors, surveillance cameras, and drones.