ah, on dealing with what people have to say matters to us. i am. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. it's with a large scale military drew in the arctic involving 30000 nieto troops in a defensive exercise. not far from the russian border. we didn't the baby worried about developments in europe. well, we can expect, tense time has been lucky that we go to martha. there's a widening rift between east and west. something few people saw coming

all these did with the war which created from i was mad to you a bit and you deal with which and that's why all the russian now are broken and we don't want to return in the soviet times. the old fear of russia has returned, especially in the baltic region, because i thought that nobody doubts it, because i knew that girls get dog i live with 2nd k, the cold war and the iron curtain were terms i know from history class, but rushes invasion of ukraine has changed all that the old highest west divide is suddenly back, which makes me both angry and afraid to take just one little spark to when lee shook global conflict. what do people in north eastern europe think about all this? and how are they responding to current developments

for russia and the you share a border stretching over 2000 kilometers from the baltic states to northern finland . above is the border to nato member norway. there lies the town of cucumbers. * oh what does amelia ang alene has caught an intruder? stop down on your knee. she and her fellow border guards are conducting a mock arrest. anyone crossing the norwegian russian border illegally is not exactly given a warm welcome i'm if you cross that are retina reason border if you get any help on the russian side. yes. okay, we're gonna do a quick visitation. this is a routine exercise for the 21 year old who's doing her military service in this remote part of norway,

right by the border to russia than i or if they've always been important to guard the border and prevent unauthorized entry. but i personally feel it's especially important right now. when i look at what's happening in my brain, we're even more alert for lucas iona composite extra part of the 2 pairs of boots. how thick snow shoot plus waterproof camouflage clothing? emilia needs extra warm clothing for this post. several 100 kilometers north of the arctic circle. her equipment also includes an assault rifle. i'm going out, we have to be dear, ducked in under 5 minutes. so when the alarm sounds, we 1st come here and quickly get ourselves ready. although today we have the internet time started. martin the team give their rifles of final check before heading out ah,

the troops here have to be ready for action. 247. departing from their base in pacific, they'll be covering a lot of ground as they patrol the border to russia. that you countries are separated by a major river. when it freezes over in the winter, the border guards can patrol on snow moves their route across the ice, takes them past the russian mining town of nico fin, mark is a sparsely populated region where emilia rarely meets civilians. but at a pair, eric torrison is an exception. also about 62 year old has lived in this area for many years. also, he tells us about how the cross border contract with russia has drastically changed all day. today you'll be in the restaurant, i work in the plumbing business or the whole band. we have a lot of customers in russia. if rogers long, well, things have gotten really difficult. are all digital communication has got

a really tough for even phone calls. all fair to thing, while ball til of homer, it's just sad to say, sat for that, but also for people on the alyssa horse. although to the, for a long reform, for now. after a brief break, it's time for emilia and her unit to continue on. norway's porter to russia is just about 200 kilometers long. one thing i notice is how young the soldiers hero norway as mandatory military service for men and women, normally lasting 12 months. amelia is glad to be doing her service up here by the border. she's even volunteered to stay on for another 6 months. her family back in oslo is not so happy, man. i read with

the alley through the group. my family thinks it isn't safe, apparently, but they don't really know what i'm to let of course. they also farming the war kramer when i'm so they're always asking how i'm doing it. i always tell them everything's hired. our are the out of the mac and mean m emilia seems remarkably composed despite the tense situation. mm hm. in ah, the mood is very different. a few kilometers away in qc and us. our town that is direct experience with war. it was largely destroyed during the 2nd world war to day it's home to about 3500 people at closely tied to russia. this large shipyard was built here in the 1980s.

on the day we arrived there is a trawler for more months. in the main hall, the manager is in a pretty desperate situation. the sanctions on pu jeans, russia, he tells us, are also impacting his shipyard, or they have to ship the ship to, to set sail in 2 days time. and then were expecting the new on from russia, found like will be for him. but i don't know if it'll work out because the customer is unable to transfer the down payment. so therefore, we monitoring the situation 247 variable j girl is team deal solely with russian customers. over the years, genuine friendships have developed and gregory learned a lot about russia. i oh boy, a little from development built. i worked in russia myself in the light eighty's and still have friends in that title. somebody, lego, and i never imagined russia would invite them. look, we suspected the kremlin wanted crimea who had locked but the whole of you crying

newly a photo way law. it's impossible to say will that regime or do next there that i really try to call them all is i slipping into a new colleague and take it off an old secular the shipyard has no shortage of orders. and yet it faces the threat of potential closure. many of the employees here are russians who move to kirk unless a few years ago in search of better job prospect. no one can see what the future holds. gregor asks us not to film interviews with his staff as a speaker from the my in here is pretty somber. the war in ukraine is the predominant issue to the maybe people here are from russia and have families and ties back home . they're willing to express their opinions when we're not filming. a boss tells us they shouldn't do so on camera. dr. shut the

norwegian minister of trade and industry will be coming by later today. 35 year old young christian investor stock st. paul, horning speaking to business leaders, he defends the sanctions against russia, knowing they affect every one in his audience, including gregor and the shipyard. yakking to see the office by the go. all full. if y'all down in the dumb off, the situation is dramatic, but they companies, he make a large part of their sales from russian clients, e keep long jobs, and people in the region is also important from a security perspective. again, another reason why the government agreed on extraordinary financial assistance and philip met extraordinary local miscarriage in talk. it should be easier for gregor and the others to get loans now. but gregor still has questions i got up to you. i hope it does not mean exactly. my counselor is already scratching his head too hard to get in touch with us. no doesn't. i'm for the oklahoma in mississippi on home.

if we need to know i s i p. so we can sort out the details on the heart of things that are will they recognize the challenges, particular one region today i'm gonna, i'm said another we're in a special situation given the russia is our neighbor. vietnam was the novel mongol that's built to mystic over to mr. arnold with there is optimism, but there's concern to we're still in norway, but about 1000 kilometers further west, where we're nato exercise is taking place off the coast of the low for 10 archipelago. were allowed to film on board to frigates, but 2 or higher. dow and the rolled almond, so each some, $5000.00 tons. with 120 crew members. they're part of cold response, or nato maneuver,

incorporating some 30000 troops on board. we meet the head of the norwegian navy, fully understand what the back when he started his military service relations with russia were friendlier than ever a time when they were even joint exercises. the thought and held new syndrome. ah, the situation is new to me as well for where entering into a whole new era of european security, polio, sunset the other day or the so it's important for nato members like no way in germany, there to now strengthen their forces or no stake, a ship for sure or kitchen. so we can expand maneuver and improve military cooperation venue, threatening it from your assistant lopez solomon when i picked them up. why here? the arctic is rich in natural resources, with russia, among the countries asserting claims to the c bed, but doesn't

a joint military exercise on this scale constituted profit, ocean floor plan lock lang. it's been planned for a long time, along with full transparency, antelopes i better. we even invited russian observer. the thought this is a defense. you have a smart law, not like it's not at all a direct response to the situation in your brain. poor social no. can i not, perhaps not, but they're eager. none the less to take a visible stance because in my mind, conducting defensive exercises suggests of feeling of being under threat. norway is a founding member of data neighboring finland has yet to join the military alliance . finland has a longer border with russia than any other member of the e. u. 1300 kilometers from north to south. our next stop is la bayne run. it's a popular resort town. russians have long been coming here,

some on vacation, others for shopping trips. and there are a growing number of permanent residents here who are originally from across the border items such as nadia. she moved here from moscow a few years ago. after meeting her future husband euclid was studying their 2 children are bilingual. nadia felt it was important for us getting olivia to learn russian. nadia talks on the phone with her mother in moscow. almost every day. marianna, it changed quite radically. i would say when the internet is independent, use channels were blocked. there was very strong sensor korea. i was like on what you can say, what we cannot say. and then she was afraid anymore to talk that openly. we accompany the family on their way to the local by national school. whether

pupils had russian or finish roots was never an issue. nadia tells us, but she fears that might change due to the war in ukraine or more the most important been here was to why to explain to kids also political association so that they understand that it's not their fault. that was for me that the highest priority that they don't give themselves because i felt it's very hardly on myself . and i was afraid that, that i don't want that they feel the same. leave enjoying nadia at the local university where she meets up with some of her russian friends and i get another room in our house and they've been helping refugees from ukraine even that they fear would mean trouble. ukrainian peoples, you always have this like threat on the bank ground that what might be the consequences not necessarily maybe for me,

but maybe from my relatives wholly fail and the other side of the border. and nadia was never really interested in politics. but that changed with the war and ukraine was hon. assisted by uncle concurrent is that i was really impressed, sitting with that group just now. i could have kept talking with them for hours and they asked me beforehand who we worked for. and also asked us not to mention their names and due to having friends and family in russia holding. so despite living in the e, u and finland, some of them for many years now, they're wary of talking openly. they think it could have repercussions for people back home, something i found pretty wild of diffuser fi, lessons, 50 cost cotton. similar fears have been driving russians to find a new home in the finish capital helsinki. by the time we shot this film in march, finland had already closed its airspace to russian plains, but there was still a train running from st. petersburg. many of those on board were russians with just

a couple of suitcases. having left their country where they'd been afraid to speak their minds, i would just come about, that's their situation in russia. that is starting to become a terrible and all this with the war which created from ours. mad, stupid and video which and that's why we'll rush in our broken and we don't want to return in the soviet times, given the sticker on your backpack, can be a reason for you to go to jail or to be like, oh yes, stopped by the police so it's, it's, it's not even a small chance to express your thoughts. shortly afterwards, the st. petersburg to helsinki, rails, if this was halted, russia's invasion of ukraine has put finland under pressure. finland and russia have a long and troubled history. in 1939. the soviets invaded their neighbor in what became known as the winter war. the things have been on guard ever since. we had

underground deep below the streets of east helsinki to visit of all things of swimming pool. ola jaqueline is in charge of the 80 cascoo swimming hall. he explains the history of the facility and why it still exists. empty is for one day or 2 days. so that would be price. is there gonna be people who are gonna be full of people? the b one strained the pool, could provide emergency shelter for nearly 4000 people. what lies beneath the pools is a labyrinth of tunnels blasted and carved out of the bedrock deep under the city. the entrance to the bunker was secured by 2 impervious iron doors. calling

with pretty method. yeah, the 1st door noise like a pression or for the bomb. and the 2nd is for the gas. so there pitch. yeah. so basically like somewhere close to new nuclear bomb. my do you really say it's good that finish this prepared? i really scared of something not, not really, but i think just as this is just smart like building stuff like we need to build a pool anyway we dont have space for its quite not fill the pool underground and a sup children at the same time. so we have many sports facilities which is built like this, which works as a shelter. hello. this bunker system is massive in scale. and modern to a giant function system has been expanded underneath helsinki since the cold war.

it could house more than 650000 people and the fence thought of everything. electricity is bad and even toilet, at least toilets of the bucket variety. there's also a ventilation system large enough to supply people with fresh air for days on end. oxygen is already a much needed commodity down here. various bunkers are used as sports hauls. this section of the bunker is the responsibility of the civil defense officer yardi martin and he's been working here for almost 30 years now. he saw in collier rock and i'm in an article, so amazon shulty and i contacted ma much the 1st shelters were billions i rock at the image or sad old lower cabinet to my than move were added during the cold war. oscar collecting stella by cooksey. i yup. womach. then there were fees of

radiation exposure and family has come up to that. i can tell miss thornton on at 10 o'clock. so we kept on building right up to today. i called in austin. finland invests a lot of money in civil defense. it's the kind of protection people in the baltic nations would like to have as well right now. our journey takes us further south along the eas, external border from finland. down to lithuania, the country borders the russian enclave of colleen and drug to the west, and bella roost to the east. people in the capital vilnius are becoming increasingly nervous. on this day, several 100 residents have gathered outside the russian embassy, but also they have many have brought along their own placards to protest against the invasion of our crane natively. i have not noticed it to the model of that with

the good that nobody doubts it. lithuania will be. meg hilton had let dog albert 2nd to remember that it's really worrying with this. aggression is so close to us. i can still remember when we were attacked before we assume i was just a kid and hid under the covers whale would allow young cargo cover. yes. black from from job it's been just over 30 years since lithuanian struggle for independence. it was the 1st baltic nation to break away from the soviet union. moscow responded by sending in the army. so we had to ship answer wound some one from symptom when some found it on. you mentioned kitten before cunning these or dot in the saw academy brooks. each los gatos community afford not alden sidon, delicious, and been an eagle. him on slanting fun pants on you bolt. so dot. and she isn't any minute as get daughter and sub wounded,

14 people were killed in this confrontation in january 1991 more than 1000 were injured. at one point, a young man stood defiantly in front of an advancing soviet tag. in a tense encounter, lasting several minutes. we need that man more than 30 years after that night. in the shadow of the tv shower, we charter stunner ravages shows us the spot where the photo was taken. we heard short form and the air weather thing with smouldering as though then the tanks came up. this hill food you can still see where is no liquor. the charges can no longer explain what he was thinking when he stood in front of the tank. only that it felt right curse for my ciocca this, it was when it turned around and left her that i realized that one thought that

we'd owe one authentic. if it is what happened back then is something we must never forget is or not. and it must never be repeated or vocal. and yet we see it happening again right now in ukraine or at home. we charters shows the photo to friends from ukraine, whom he and his wife garage. and i have taken a logo that's always alena and osi fled their home. and chief review for 2 couples, have known each other for many years. i could totally commercialize when, when the war began. as we panicked, a chart of diana graziano sent us a letter ill. i'm it is, and is this photo with it for, for the, for the, for that i feel with his face with the, the fer pressure can that gave us courage and strength of the bullet which he seated i. e at her. and alanna charla. i never imagined i'd seen russia attacking a country in the middle of europe in my life time. and now i was sitting with these

2 people who'd fled the war just a few days earlier. not osi says that russia intends to strip ukraine of its independence in a bid to restore its former glory. the war in ukraine has left many lithuanian steeply worried. reader chapel lay a taxi driver, sees a lot of vilnius and its people every day. she too, was afraid that the baltic nations will be the next to come under threat. we go to the russian embassy, where the protests were held just a few days prior. though with her as a musician, but her messengers and get miss williamson, i never thought something like this could have been gossum pussy. educate mazda, sir. okay. master law, i always talk about the 21st century in terms of what we owe, which he was awesome. that were tolerant and innovative the what did they leave us? a walk and now this is more breaks out. not an information. we're out of real one in 4 months like we know from the history books or eucharist car of dogs of your

khaki most gave it see the hard to wrap your head around. oh, it's the grill always some cathedral so walked, have suppressed it. oh, sure, something that's changed on the one side. we have this way in police, and because we're standing in front of the russian embassy were being watched the whole time by a little camera all the protests continue here. nonetheless. meanwhile, rita's parents live 170 kilometers away from the lithuanian capital right by the border to bellows, which is why reach and now phones are mom ynez more often than usual? think julissa emma? yeah. ah, you did. so i meg van the, maybe it off with us. yeah. they're so close to the border that they can see it from their house yet. they view. they're really worried. yeah. okay,

cool. so when we talk on the phone, i try to avoid that subject and instead talk about nice or funny things to cheer them up. whistle though you're taking one more to use it. and if reaches concerned over in vilnius, how to her parents via innocent vito's chipley have lived in the border town of very chose for more than 30 years. v t as used to drive buses across the soviet union. to day the 2 are watching news reports on both lithuanian and russian tv. they tell us about their fears, uneasy. nobody knows what to expect. we feel uneasy. he says no, he in regarding a village door is revealing, but they run out of certain things g to deliver issues or what a day or so united is good. there is no result. it's a 35 kilometer drive to the nearest town to get salt and flower while out walking her dog, not far from the border,

even as his mind often turns to the past. during soviet times they were free to travel back and forth. oh there is a birch forest lug where will you go naturally for a jake? and on another side there's an old oak for a hot dog which was also full of wild mushrooms out. we used to cross country. lenny, i'm in a bogus shadow now it's the border and it feels as if we've lost ferrara that you live right next door, but i can't go picking mushrooms in the store. now. gully, things that seem so close are further away than ever before. here it's as if the cold war has returned an alarming feeling, especially for people who lived through it before gave as good shoes or best. when i hear an unfamiliar noise, even over there, monday i get old tense, faster. yes,

i told provide symbolic security, but how would it be in reality, god forbid it comes to that ah, the noise there are various reactions to this new cold war. but people in the baltic, which i seem especially sensitive, because they remembered their struggle for independence in the ninety's. many will remind you not all russians support protein, which offers a ray of hope of that east and west bed reconstructions on the bridges to make that possible were visible on my journey among the russian border. except that right now there eerily empty.

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ah ah, this is a w news live from berlin. ukraine reclaims territory from russian forces on the eastern front line troops re take villages near hockey, but find a trailer, russian destruction and call for more anti tank weapons to maintain them. imagine, despite the victor is the u. s. warranted russia is ready for a long walk. also on the program, the veterans al jazeera journalist is shot and killed covering on his railey military operation during the apple app. clo was in the occupied west bank.