Finland seizes hundreds of Russian freight cars as EU sanctions bite
MOSCOW, July 5 (Reuters) - Finland has seized nearly a thousand freight cars belonging to Russian companies as a result of European Union sanctions, according to Finnish state-owned rail operator VR and a letter from Russia's rail monopoly seen by Reuters.
As Finland's VR moved to reduce railway traffic with Russia after the EU sanctioned Russian coal supplies in April, 865 rail cars from Russia were seized by bailiffs, according to the June 6 dated letter from Russian Railways to the Ministry of Transport.
Finnish bailiff authority told Reuters it has had frozen assets of a few dozen of Russian and Belarusian individuals and legal entities, including transportation firms, worth at least 82 million euros, to comply with EU sanctions.
VR's spokeswoman Taina Kuitunen confirmed by email that there were "around 800 units of sanctioned (freight) cars in Finland at the moment" and the company sought to return the non-seized ones to Russia as soon as possible.
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Putin is getting the very thing he fears the most; surrounded. Finland and Sweden effectively put a NATO cork in the Baltic, just about landlocking Russia during the long cold Winters.
If it were up to me, I would have the EU and NATO tell Putin that if he doesn't get out of Ukraine as fast as his little feet could carry his ragtag army, that they would be forced to secure their Eastern national borders by temporarily occupying and controlling Belarus. Then invite Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to join NATO. Cut his country off from Eastern Europe and then see how long he can get along with his only friend being his natural enemy, China. I think that China should have autonomy over Russia's Asian inhabitants anyway! 
His little war of aggression has gone on long enough.
I like the idea of sending the Oath Keeper and Proud Bois, to take their guns and their kindred criminal gangs to practice their patriotism in Belarus. In fact, draft anyone who owns an AK or AR, regardless of their age or physical condition. Let them work out their anger issues on someone who deserves it for a fucking change.
See what a great dictator I would make?
