Observers doubt the new US president will buy the world's largest island but his interest underlines its strategic importance President Donald Trump's claim that US ownership and control of Greenland is "an absolute necessity" has underlined the strategic importance of the world's largest island in terms of American missile defences and anti-submarine operations.

Reports from Russian news outlets like TASS stated that the instructor was killed during a missile strike, but Danish officials have labeled the story as false and part of a disinformation campaign. Also read China Slams the Door on Russia’s Shadow Fleet Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen rejected the claims on X,

"Russia has never said, suggested, or done anything like this, either with regard to Denmark or its allies," she noted. "These statements have been coming for quite a while now. This is not the ...

Russia once floated the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland in a forged fundraising letter sent to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton nearly five years ago, according to Danish intelligence. Newsweek contacted the Kremlin and the Trump-Vance transition team for comment by email on Monday.

We need it for international security. And I’m sure that Denmark will come along — it’s costing them a lot of money to maintain it, to keep it,” says new U.S. president.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is closely monitoring the situation, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to take Greenland from Denmark. Peskov said the Arctic was in Russia's "sphere of national and ...

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov when asked to comment on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's remarks about acquiring Greenland said on Tuesday that people of Greenland should be listened to first.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is once again making waves with his pursuit of Greenland, this time refusing to rule out using force to gain control of the Arctic island from ally Denmark. But Washington had been interested in Greenland long before Trump came along.

Trump said in a press conference this week that he would not rule out using military force to seize Greenland.

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