Ukraine-Russia war latest: Norway fears Putin could invade it next as Moscow claims gains in Zaporizhzhia
Norway’s top military official has warned it cannot ignore the possibility of a future Russian invasion over nuclear assets stationed in the far north.
General Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s chief of defence, said the Nordic nation does not “exclude a land grab from Russia as part of their plan to protect their own nuclear capabilities, which is the only thing they have left that actually threatens the United States”.
Gen Kristoffersen warned that while Russia does not have conquest goals in Norway in the same way as it has for Ukraine or other former Soviet nations, its nuclear arsenal located on the Kola peninsula could motivate Moscow to invade regardless.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry claims its forces have captured the rural settlement of Zaliznychne in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, though it did not provide any evidence to back its claim.
And Kyiv has condemned the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ban the country’s skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from using a helmet with images of Ukrainian sportspeople killed during the war as “profoundly wrong”.
