Russia is reinforcing its strategic assets in the Arctic and building up new facilities along the border with Finland, the Scandinavian country’s defence minister told Euronews, stressing the Arctic is “critical” to European defence.
“Russia has most of their biggest strategic capabilities in nuclear, submarines, long-range bombers in the Kola Peninsula area,” Antti Häkkänen told Euronews in an interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference over the weekend.
