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NATO membership prospect brings relief for border Finns
HIIVANIEMI: Troubled by the war in Ukraine, Finnish pensioner Martti Kailio, 73, keeps his hunting rifle to hand at his home in Hiivaniemi, overlooking the Russian border on the other side of a lake.“It makes me so angry that I would be amongst the first volunteers to go out there with a loaded gun, even though I’m not young enough to be a soldier anymore,“ he says.For many Finns living on the eastern border, the prospect of their country applying to join NATO has been greeted with relief.“We should have joined earlier. No point in dragging it out anymore”, Kailio says.Sharing a 1,300-kilometre (800-mile) border with Russia, Finland has in the past stayed out of military alliances.But after

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