Finnish women enroll in survival courses due to threat from Russia
Kyiv • UNN
The Women's National Association of Finland is organizing a course on survival in the face of the threat from Russia. Participants aged 18 to 70 learn the basics of survival, cybersecurity, and psychological resilience.
The Women's National Association of Finland is conducting courses on survival in crisis situations due to the threat from Russia. This was reported by The Guardian ,and UNN.
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The training takes place in a camp located near the town of Kokkola. The youngest of the women is 18 years old, and the oldest is 70. The group is learning, among other things, how to survive in crisis situations, including how to make and extinguish fires, cook outdoors, and provide first aid.
"I didn't think Russia would attack us," says 42-year-old Sari, who works in sales. But then, she adds: "They attacked Ukraine. I realized that maybe we are next.
The training course, known as "Nasta," is one of 40 that the Women's National Association for Emergency Preparedness is running across Finland. Other courses include cybersecurity, psychological resilience, wilderness skills, snowmobile driving, and information influence. After the invasion of Ukraine, the number of applications for the courses increased dramatically.
Despite the lack of official military cooperation between the two neighbors, Finnish intelligence services call Russia the main threat to Finland's national security and have little doubt that a hybrid war is underway in the country.
Last week, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen issued a joint statement with her German counterpart expressing "deep concern" over the alleged sabotage - one of two in the Baltic - of a submarine cable between Finland and Germany.
Helsinki also accuses Russia of using proxies, including asylum seekers, to exacerbate the situation in its neighbor; suspicious hacks of water treatment plants and problems with GPS jamming have been noted.
