🇫🇮 Finnish Border Guard Mikko Kallionpää shot the first Russian of the Winter War and he shot the first German of the Lapland War. #Talvisota Mikko Kallionpää served in Finnish Border Guard in 1939. He served in Inari guard post, particular area Red Army crossed Finnish - Soviet border in first day of Winter War 30th of November 1939. One of Finnish border guards of the particular guard post spotted the Soviets

🇫🇮 First shot of the #WinterWar. #OTD 5:30am on the morning of 30 November 1939, Finnish Border Guard Kallionpää returned from a night-time patrol to his station at Pielisjärvi, Karelia. He had just started sipping a cup of coffee when a report was received that a column of
🧵 Soviet soldiers had been seen crossing the border. Kallionpää and fellow Border Guard Moiseinen were ordered to carry out reconnaissance to determine if it was a Soviet incursion. They had gone only a 1km when they sighted Soviet troops advancing in close formation. #Talvisota

🇭🇷 Unidentified flying object crashing in the capital of Croatia. Object that fell looks like a part of an aircraft engine. Crater is 3m wide and 1m deep.

#Zagreb #Croatia One parachute found near chrash site.