MOSCOW. Nov 8 (Interfax) - The information that Finland has proposed opening a NATO drone base on its territory for gathering intelligence along the Russian border needs to be verified, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"This needs to be verified and looked at closely," Peskov said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, co-author of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya 1 television channel (VGTRK), as he commented on the respective reports by Finnish media outlets.
"If you remember the statements, I believe it was the Finnish president speaking, the statements made at the time they entered into NATO, they said that Finland would not deploy any military infrastructure elements near our border," Peskov said.
A reconnaissance drone base "is nothing but an element of military infrastructure," he said.