Putin’s war-hungry Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that Russia will take military action if Greenland is transformed by the US into a strategic base against Moscow.
Speaking during a government session in the State Duma, the 75-year-old diplomat said any deployment of military capabilities targetingRussiawould trigger “appropriate countermeasures, including military-technical ones.”
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Lavrov claimed that the future of the Arctic island was a matter for the United States and Denmark — but made clear the Kremlin would not tolerate Western military expansion in the region.
“The United States, Denmark, and Greenland must sort this out for themselves,” he said.
Greenland is a territory of the Danish crown.
“Taking into account the opinions of the residents of the largest island, of course, who have been treated quite harshly by official Copenhagen for many years and decades… as second-class citizens,” said the Kremlin’s hardline chief diplomat.
“There is ample evidence to support this point.”
“Naturally, if Greenland were to become militarised and military capabilities aimed at Russia were created there, we would take appropriate countermeasures, including military-technical ones.”
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
