Russia says Greenland belongs to Denmark - after four years of trying to take Ukrainian territory - Donald Trump threatened allies with more tariffs if they did not go along with his plan for the Dani

Russia said on Thursday that its was unacceptable for the West to keep claiming that Russia and China threatened Greenland, and said the crisis over the territory showed the double-standards of Western powers which claimed moral superiority.

President Donald Trump warns China and Russia could seek influence in Greenland as Danish leaders push back on U.S. takeover, warning it would "end" NATO.

U.S. President Donald Trump has made an American takeover of Greenland a focus of his second term in the White House.

Russia said on Thursday that NATO's talk of Russia and China being a threat to Greenland was a myth designed to artificially whip up hysteria and that what it called the Western alliance's policy of escalating confrontation in the Arctic was extremely dangerous.

Polish PM Donald Tusk warns NATO member seizing Greenland would trigger end of world, whilst Russian senator Dmitry Rogozin claims annexation could spark nuclear war

Moscow aligns with recent statements from the Danish Foreign Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, denying that Russia or China threaten Greenland. Russia has no aggressive plans of any kind regarding Greenland,

The head of Denmark's military Joint Arctic Command said on Friday that there were no Chinese or Russian ships observed near Greenland, despite repeated claims by U.S. President Donald Trump to the contrary.