The Karelian National Movement (Russian: Карельское национальное движение, romanized: Karelskoye natsional'noye dvizheniye; Finnish: Karjalan kansallinen liike; Karelian: Karjalan kanšallin liikeh), officially KKL-Stop the Occupation of Karelia[2] is an umbrella term for two organizations that split from each other in 2023.

The organization led by the original creator, Dmitry Kuznetsov, who also goes by the name Miteri Panfilov, is called Stop the Occupation of Karelia (Finnish: Lopeta Karjalan Valtaus); it was previously known as the Karelian National Liberation Movement.

[9] The leader of the Karelian Republican Movement, Vadim Shtepa, refused to cooperate with the KNM, citing their ethnocentrism as the reason.

[11] On 15 November 2023, the Karelian National Movement of Oleynik demanded Kuznetsov to stop the conflict and to return control of the original Telegram channel, after that demand the Karelian National Liberation Movement of Kuznetsov was renamed back to Stop the Occupation of Karelia.

[16] In January 2023 the Karelian National Movement organized a volunteer battalion that became a part of the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine.

[17] Due to ideological differences on the position of the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Free Russia Legion in the Belgorod Incursions, on 7 June 2023, Dmitry Kuznetsov announced the cessation of communication between itself and the remaining members of the Karelian National Battalion.

[5] Some Finnish and Karelian politicians and journalists called into question the legitimacy of the organization, seeing it as a part of the information warfare during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[19][5] Some Finnish politicians and journalists believe that the organization was created by the Federal Security Service of Russia in order to stir up revanchism and nationalism in Finland.

[7]Stop the Occupation of Karelia also claims territories lost by Finland after the Winter War, including the city of Vyborg to be belonging to an independent Karelian state.