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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov during a summit of leaders of member nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in Moscow, Russia, October 8, 2024.
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The Kremlin said Thursday that it is closely monitoring President-elect Donald Trump’s ongoing search for Greenland.
Earlier this week, Trump said he would not rule out using military force to seize the strategically important Arctic island that is an autonomous territory of Denmark, saying it was in the economic and national interest of the United States.
Trump’s comments have found some support among pro-Kremlin figures in Russia, including some close to President Vladimir Putin. say that any move by the United States to claim Greenland would legitimize Russia’s own expansionist goals and ambitions to restore former Soviet territories, such as the Baltics, to their own sphere of influence and power.
European leaders have warned President-elect Trump is against seizing Greenland, saying such a move would violate international borders, while Denmark and Greenland have declared that the island, where the United States has a military base, is “not for sale.”
In the Kremlin’s first public comments on the matter on Thursday, press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Russia was watching the situation closely.
“Such claims are probably more a matter of bilateral relations between the United States and Denmark,” Peskov told reporters Thursday, according to comments. reported by Russian state news agency Tass and translated by Google.
“We are following this rather dramatic development of the situation very closely, but so far, thank God, (the situation remains) at the level of statements,” Peskov said.
