Unease and stoicism on Finland's Russian border

Russian Anastasia Petrishina, who has lived and worked near Finland's Imatra for 10 years, has shelved plans to visit her daughter in St Petersburg

Her mother's family farm is now in Russia, says Maija Poyhia, a legacy of the 1939 Winter War

In her wooden, snow-covered house 20 minutes from Russia, Maija Poyhia wears a traditional blue headscarf that her mother carried with her when fleeing the Soviet invasion of Finland during World War II.In Finland, Russia's assault on Ukraine has stirred up some painful associations with the 1939 Winter War, when Red Army troops attacked the Nordic country across their shared border, which now runs to 1,340 kilometres (830 miles).

The mother of two says the outbreak of war has made her consider, "What does it mean being a Russian person in Finland, in the EU, and staying outside Russia?"