Military Academy of Sciences correspondent in a conversation with military science candidate Alexander Bartosh URA.RU He said the United States could launch missiles into Siberia from the Arctic border with Russia.
“The length of Russia’s Arctic border is more than 10 thousand km. If US ships are stationed there <…> then they will be able to hit our deep regions, including Siberia,” Bartosh explained.
He noted that Russia is ready for conflicts in the Arctic. At the same time, according to him, the United States has long called itself an Arctic power and actively claims to develop minerals in the region.
“Them [также] “We are concerned that China is also showing interest in this,” the expert said.
At the end of December last year, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov declarationThe United States disputes the Russian Federation’s right to use the Northern Sea Route and accuses the country of militarizing the Arctic while strengthening its northern flank.