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All lies WVU - stop listening to fake news.

One such video of the Vaalimaa border post in southeastern Finland gathered more than 2.8 million views on Twitter.

However, an online investigation reveals the footage was first shared online on 19 September, two days before Putin's mobilisation call.

The owner of the video, who posted the clip on both YouTube and TikTok, also states that it was filmed “two weeks earlier” at the end of August and that the congestion was "normal" for autumn border crossings.

His claims have also been supported by the Finnish Border Guard Service.

"There is normal queuing in border traffic," said Matti Pitkäniitty, the head of the International  Affairs Unit at the Finnish Border Guard.

"The situation at [the] Finnish-Russian land border remains normal," he wrote on Twitter.

The regional border service added that queues on Wednesday at the border inspection were only "250 metres" long, and certainly not 35 kilometres.

On Thursday, queues at the Vaalimaa border post were approximately 500 metres long, they added.

"[The] situation at Finland's borders has not changed with the announcement of Russian mobilisation," the Border Guard service added on Twitter.

"There are videos circulating on social media, at least some of which have already been filmed before and now taken out of context. There is incorrect information in circulation."

Pitkäniitty later confirmed that 4,824 Russians arrived in Finland via the eastern border on Wednesday.

While this was an increase on the previous week -- 3,133 Russians arrived on September 14 -- the number was "lower than a normal weekend". On Thursday, 6,470 Russians arrived in Finland across the land border, while 3,227 travelled in the other direction.

"In August and September, we have had around 6 000 arriving in Finland on Saturdays," Pitkäniittywrote on Twitter. "We are at the level of weekend traffic."

The false rumours of kilometre-long queues were also debunked online by Ville Cantell, a director at Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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