the first to be removed under new immigration plans. meanwhile, russia has suspended electricity supplies to finland overnight following a threat over payment arrears. moscow has warned the country, with which it shares a i,300km border, will face retaliatory steps if it does decide to join the alliance. a formal decision to is expected to be made on sunday. i m joined now by eoin mcnamara, a research fellow at the finnish institute for international affairs in helsinki. really good to have you with us. let s talk about, first of all, the
and unhappiness about nato members on its doorstep has been one of the primary concerns in the run up to the war. if finland joins nato, its 1,300km border with russia will become nato s eastern front. we ve heard about the history of war between the two countries, but how do people living on this potential new frontier feel, and what s been the impact of putin s aggression on previously close relationships between finns and russians who live here? sima kotecha has been to assess the mood along the border of the frontier nation. a thousand or so miles from kyiv, imatra might look like a different world, but the repercussions of the war there are only too real for those living here. with russia just minutes away, the prospect of this becoming nato s new frontier suddenly feels closer than ever before. i hope that nato