Russia monitors Trump’s Greenland ambitions, calling the situation ‘unusual’ while expressing concern over NATO’s Arctic militarisation.
MOSCOW: Russia is watching with interest as US President Donald Trump pushes for American control of Greenland, but is keeping its own position on the potential acquisition unclear.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Trump would “go down in history” if he took control of the island, while declining to say whether this was “good or bad”.
He described the situation as “unusual, I would even say extraordinary, from the point of view of international law”.
European allies have warned a US attempt to seize Greenland would rupture NATO, an alliance Russia views as a security threat.
Moscow has also repeatedly expressed concern about the West expanding its military foothold in the strategically important Arctic region.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted on Tuesday that “Greenland is not a natural part of Denmark, it is a colonial conquest”.
He compared it to other European-controlled territories like the Falkland Islands.
President Vladimir Putin has not spoken publicly on the dispute this year, but commented on it in March 2025.
Putin said then that Trump had “serious plans regarding Greenland” with “long-standing historical roots”.
He stated the issue “concerns two specific nations and has nothing to do with us”, but added Russia was “concerned” about increasing NATO activity in the Arctic.
The Russian Embassy in Belgium last week accused NATO of an “accelerated militarisation of the North”.
Pro-Kremlin media outlets have revelled in the diplomatic chaos the proposal has caused among Western allies.
