Keeping eye on Russian build-up, Danes ready to send fighter jets to Greenland

Copenhagen still views the Arctic as a low-tension region, but it is prepared to take “precautionary measures”

By Kevin McGwin May 20, 2019
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Denmark is ready to station fighter jets in Greenland if it feels threatened by Russia’s expanding military presence along its northern coast, the defense minister, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, has said.

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