Asylum seekers arriving by land in Finland from Russia will now be required to lodge applications some 300km north of the Arctic Circle at the remote Raja-Jooseppi border post.
The Ministry of Interior expects the number of Ukrainian refugees seeking temporary protection in Estonia to increase in the coming months as winter approaches because civilian infrastructure in Ukraine has been severely damaged.
Tallink's Isabelle ferry, which is used to temporarily house Ukrainian refugees, is still almost full four months after it was first converted. The average stay is around six weeks long, officials say.
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