In September 2015, Finland recorded an unprecedented influx of migrants entering the country via two border crossings located on the Finnish-Russian border. EU and Finnish officials expressed concern that Moscow orchestrated the migrant crisis by directing migrant flows into Finland to extract concessions from Helsinki and to apply pressure on Helsinki to normalize the two countries’ bilateral relationship. Experts argue that migrants could not cross into Finland through Russia without the assistance of Russian security services, as migrant routes traverse zones of military interest in Russia’s northwestern corridor and therefore remain under constant state supervision. Finland reinstated ministerial-level meetings with Russia in 2016 after a multi-year hiatus to resolve the migrant crisis.