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Russia is burning natural gas into the air at the border. The fire can be seen from Finland.
Yle writes about it.
According to satellite images of the NASA fire monitoring system, flames have been burning at the Portova compressor station of the Russian company Gazprom every day since June 17.
Residents of the Virolakhti municipality also told journalists that they saw the fire raging across the Russian border.
This may indicate that it is already difficult for Russia to store the extracted gas, and they began to simply burn it there.
According to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko, such processes show that Western sanctions continue to bind Russians.