INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Kremlin is closely following United States President-elect Donald Trump's claim to Greenland, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on
Thursday, expressing relief that it was currently only rhetoric.Trump refused to rule out military action to take control of the Arctic
island at a press conference Tuesday
people of Greenland be consulted about what they wanted, pointing to Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions in 2022, which he said
Countries, denounced Russia's annexations of the four Ukrainian regions as illegal, and the referendums as a sham.Greenland is a
mineral-rich autonomous territory of EU member Denmark and an associated territory of the 27-member bloc.Trump separately on Tuesday
suggested using military force to secure control of the Panama Canal, which the United States handed back to Panama under late President
Jimmy Carter, and leveraging economic force against neighboring Canada.
