Due to the ban on cars with Russian licence plates entering Finland, traffic on the Finnish-Russian border has significantly decreased, Karjalainen reports. On the border with Norway, it has also subsided. Lieutenant Colonel Jukka Lukkari, a representative of the Finnish Border Guard Service, commented on the situation.
According to him, the traffic on the border began to subside even before the information about the ban on entry of cars appeared on 15 September. The ban came into force on 16 September.
Lukkari believes that Russians may start looking for new ways to circumvent the entry ban. For example, cars registered in other countries can come to Finland. It is also possible to arrive by other forms of public transport or use transport services. It is also interesting that there has been no response to the ban from Russia, although the country could have banned entry for Finnish “petrol tourists”.