Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The recent bicycle-powered 'migrant invasion' on the Finnish border was reportedly ordered by Russian Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Kiriyenko and organised by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, but has failed to achieve its apparent objectives. ⬇️

2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that "Kiriyenko personally ordered ... Kolokoltsev to gather illegal immigrants from the Middle East, Africa, etc. in all centres for accommodating refugees and migrants."

3/ Bicycles were purchased through the state-owned VTB bank "for the future Tour de Helsinki, and outreach work was carried out among illegal immigrants, who, of course, wanted to get to Western Europe."

4/ "They managed to scrape together several hundred migrants, who staged an “assault” on the Finnish border."

5/ "However, the security forces in Finland quickly got their bearings and repelled most of the illegal crossings, and later promptly decided to completely close all checkpoints on the border with Russia."

6/ The migrants were later returned to Moscow and put to work as street sweepers.

7/ According to VChK-OGPU, the operation was carried out "by analogy with the Belarusian experience, when Minsk organized breakthroughs of African refugees across the Belarusian-Polish border." /end

Source:
t.me/vchkogpu/44014