{"id":9423,"date":"2026-02-11T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9423\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:46:09","slug":"russia-will-take-measures-including-military-ones-if-greenland-militarised-says-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9423\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia will take measures, ‘including military ones’, if Greenland militarised, says FM"},"content":{"rendered":"

European nations deployed small troop contingents to Greenland after Trump renewed calls to annex the Arctic island<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Moscow, Russia March 14, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS <\/p>\n

Russia threatened to take military “countermeasures” if the West boosts its own military footprint on Greenland, Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Several European countries have sent small contingents of troops to Greenland <\/a>in recent weeks after US President Donald Trump repeatedly said he wanted to annex the Arctic island.<\/p>\n

“Of course, in the event of the militarisation of Greenland and the creation of military capabilities aimed at Russia, we will take adequate counter-measures, including military-technical ones,” Lavrov said in a speech to Russian lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Greenland — home to some 57,000 people — has been an autonomous Danish territory for decades.<\/p>\n

Trump last month backed off threats to seize Greenland<\/a> after saying he had struck a “framework” deal with NATO chief Mark Rutte to ensure greater US influence.<\/p>\n

He had previously been warning that if the United States did not seize Greenland, Russia or China could.<\/p>\n

“The US, Denmark and Greenland must sort this out themselves,” Lavrov said.<\/p>\n

He accused Denmark of treating Greenlanders as “second-class citizens.”<\/p>\n

Greenland has said that sovereignty and integrity are a “red line” in any discussions with Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European nations deployed small troop contingents to Greenland after Trump renewed calls to annex the Arctic island Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[57,7297],"class_list":{"0":"post-9423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-greenland","9":"tag-latest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}