OREANDA-NEWS  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued a warning to NATO for its activity in the Arctic. This is reported by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung (BZ).

"Lavrov warned NATO about the inadmissibility of further increasing military activity in the Arctic. The exercises and movements of the alliance's troops increase the risk of armed confrontation," the article says.

Earlier, Sergey Lavrov in the article "International cooperation in the Arctic: challenges and opportunities", published on the information portal arctic.ru He warned that the West's unleashing of confrontation in the Arctic would lead to catastrophic consequences. He stressed that maintaining the region as a zone of peace and cooperation is in the interests of the entire international community, but NATO countries are leading to the militarization of the region and creating hotbeds of tension there.