Russia warns of a ‘crisis’ at Arctic border with Finland

Russia said on Wednesday that a humanitarian emergency was unfolding at one of its checkpoints on the Artic border with Finland, where it said hundreds of migrants were stranded in freezing temperatures. More than 500 asylum seekers have crossed from Russia to Finland since November, Finnish public broadcaster YLE says, mostly from Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Iraq. Helsinki has accused Moscow of pushing them there deliberately, which Russia denies.