Russia Steps Up Arctic Claim

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The competition for claims over the resource-rich Arctic is intensifying.

A Russian general has said his country’s military will hold training exercises in the region, following similar manoeuvres by US forces.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, an officer in charge of combat training, has told the military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda that planning for exercises in the Arctic region is underway.

He says those plans were put in train after a number of foreign leaders questioned Russia’s territorial claims to the Arctic Ocean shelf, an area believed to hold enormous volumes of natural resources, including oil.

Lt Gen Shamanov is quoted as saying modern wars are won and lost long before they start.

Last year Russia dramatically highlighted its claims to the Arctic, by using two submarines to drop a national flag under the North Pole.