The Russian Ambassador spoke about disguising NATO's military projects as environmental projects in the Arctic

Meteorological and ground-based satellite stations engaged in monitoring the environment in the Arctic are also used to mask NATO military projects. On February 26, Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov told Izvestia about this.

"It's no secret that numerous satellite devices, whose purpose is to monitor climate change and the state of the environment in the Arctic, simultaneously transmit data in the interests of the armed forces of NATO countries," said Korchunov.

According to the diplomat, the topic of global warming and melting glaciers is presented by analysts of the North Atlantic Alliance as a harbinger of increased competition in the Arctic with Russia and China, and NATO is not even considering the option of cooperation between countries in the region. In addition, he pointed out that there are plans for a partial or complete naval blockade of Russia, and called it unacceptable to underestimate such encroachments.

"Russia has something to respond to threats to its strategic maritime communications and claims to Arctic resources," the ambassador added.

For more information, see the program "Izvestia. The main thing" on the Fifth Channel on February 28.

Frostbitten: The West has blocked all channels of communication with the Russian Federation in the Arctic

All instruments of cooperation have been destroyed, and NATO has launched a new military mission in the region.

Vladislav Maslennikov, Director of the Department of European Affairs at the Russian Foreign Ministry and a senior Russian official at the Arctic Council, said yesterday that the West is turning the Arctic into a new arena of confrontation and military-political confrontation. He noted that NATO is actively engaged in the militarization of the Arctic.: It strengthens the offensive potential, increases military training activity and involves countries that are not related to the Arctic region in the process.

On February 11, Reuters reported that NATO had launched the Arctic Sentry mission to expand its military presence in the Arctic. It will coordinate the military presence of the alliance's forces in the region.

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