 Russia mobilizes illegal migrants and sends them to fight against Ukraine. Russian authorities are reportedly attempting to mobilize illegal migrants, who ended up in Russia due to provocations on the Russian-Finnish border to participate in the war against Ukraine according to a report from the ISW. It is reported that the military is trying to mobilize migrants from the Middle East and Africa, whom the Russian authorities mass detained along the Russian-Finnish border in mid-November after the closure of border crossings. It is anticipated that the deportation of these migrants could be replaced by sending them to the war in Ukraine. According to one source, the Russians swiftly transported a group of migrants who signed military contracts to the Russian-Ukrainian border. Russia artificially created a migration crisis on the border with Finland as a tactic of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilizing NATO and the EU. But Finland's response quickly led to the failure of these efforts. Finland has begun blocking entry from the territory of Russia due to the influx of illegal migrants. The Finnish border guard has prohibited entry for people traveling from by bicycle through the border crossing points with Russia.