Russia has become a problem for NATO not only in Ukraine - Stoltenberg
"The value of the Far North is growing for NATO and Canada, because we see a significant increase in Russian military force," Stoltenberg said. The material said that Canada was previously criticized for spending too little on its military potential as a NATO member. But after the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, Canada stated in June that it invests $ 4. 9 billion ($ 3.
8 billion) over the next six years in the modernization of Norad, a common American-Canadian North American defense system. On Thursday, Trudeau and Stoltenberg visited Cambridge-Bay, Nunavut, a village behind the Polar Circle, where there is a radar post of air defense. It is part of the Norad alert system in the north, which, according to experts, is in dire need of modernization.
The system, which has over sixty years, identifies security threats in North America, and its early warning radar for the Polar region was created in the late 1980s. Both Trudeau and Stoltenberg agreed that climate change makes the Arctic more accessible to economic and military activities, which increases security concerns. Earlier, Focus wrote that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called for a petition to punish the President of the Russian Federation.
The petition has already been signed by more than 1. 8 million people. The idea of creating a special joint was supported by the legal community and civil society, the European Parliament, the PACE, the OSCE and NATO. We will also remind that the Pentagon stated that Ukraine will switch to NATO standards for three years. The US Defense Ministry does not rule out that the Armed Forces will continue to use the systems and ammunition of the Soviet model manufactured in Ukraine.