MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Media reports about a reconnaissance drone base in Finland, intended to collect intelligence on Russia, must be verified, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.

"It must be verified," he said, replying to a comment on the matter.

"If you recall their statements <...> when they were joining NATO, they said that Finland would not deploy any elements of military infrastructure near our borders," Peskov said. "This is none other than elements of military infrastructure," the Kremlin official concluded.

Earlier, Yle, Finland's national public broadcasting company, reported that Helsinki had offered NATO to host a base for surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles. According to the news outlet, there are four potential locations for such a base.

Finland, which officially joined NATO in March 2023, declared the security of its borders and the lack of necessity to deploy the forces of the military bloc on its territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned that stationing NATO military infrastructure on Finnish soil would trigger an equivalent response.