A modest helicopter base built on a tiny island between Finland and Estonia is part of Russia's efforts to project power with minimal resources and unnerve the West by leaving its intentions unclear
By James Marson in Brussels and Thomas Grove in Moscow Nov. 11, 2019 9:03 am ET One of Russia’s biggest helicopters landed on a tiny island between Finland and Estonia this summer and disgorged materials and engineers who quickly threw up a helicopter base for the Russian military.
The base, built to serve all types of Russia’s transport and military helicopters, allows Mr. Putin to maintain psychological pressure on its neighbors and deter what it sees as a nightmare scenario: neighboring Finland or Sweden joining NATO, allowing the alliance to further encroach on Russia’s borders.
The helicopter base’s construction follows similar efforts to project power in the region that expend minimal resources but unnerve the West by leaving Moscow’s intentions unclear. The island was once part of Finland, but Moscow took control after World War II. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which began when unmarked special forces seized its parliament, has made neighbors nervous about fast-moving actions that can target a country from inside. Last year, Finland sent hundreds of law-enforcement agents to properties owned by a Finnish company with ties to Russia in an archipelago in the country’s southwest.
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