Russia Displeased with Danish Participation in Military Exercise

Russia’s Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir V. Barbin says Denmark’s participating in a western military exercise in the Barents Sea last week was both provoking and happening on false pretenses, according to Sermitsiaq.

A Danish Challenger plane participated in the fleet exercise where the USA, Great Britain and Norway sent warships into an area of the Barents Sea that is international waters while also in the Russian exclusive economic zone.

“Such exercises close to the Russian border provokes doubts about how genuine our Arctic neighbors are when they say they want to maintain the Arctic as a low-tension area”, Barbin says in a written statement to Ritzau.

Denmark contributed only with an unarmed plane.