“NATO actions increase the risk of a conflict in the Arctic and may lead to a military clash,” said Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Nikolai Korshunov.

Korchunov believed that “such a conflict develops in the absence of any dialogue with the participation of countries with territories in the Arctic, increases the potential for conflict and can provoke military incidents in the region.”

He noted that “Russia is concerned about the significant increase in NATO activity in the Arctic region, including non-regional members of the alliance, such as the UK.”

In an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the World Financial Forum (Ekumena 2022), a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg showed that “the alliance considers Russia’s economic cooperation with countries that do not have territories in the Arctic region, such as China, to be the case.” What NATO considers a threat to its security, to increase its presence in the north.