Increased Russian military activity in the Baltic Sea has resulted in global calls for Denmark and other nations to inspect Moscow's oil tankers.

Danish intelligence has revealed details surrounding a forged letter that reportedly influenced Trump's unexpected proposal to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

One European diplomat told Axios that Denmark was widely seen as America’s closest ally in the European Union, and that no one could have imagined it’d be the first Trump would pick a

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is once again making waves with his pursuit of Greenland, this time refusing to rule out using force to gain control of the Arctic island from ally Denmark. But Washington had been interested in Greenland long before Trump came along.

Russia once floated the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland in a forged fundraising letter sent to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton nearly five years ago, according to Danish intelligence. Newsweek contacted the Kremlin and the Trump-Vance transition team for comment by email on Monday.

Trump said in a press conference this week that he would not rule out using military force to seize Greenland.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is closely monitoring the situation, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to take Greenland from Denmark. Peskov said the Arctic was in Russia's "sphere of national and ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov when asked to comment on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's remarks about acquiring Greenland said on Tuesday that people of Greenland should be listened to first.

Denmark has recently sent private messages to the team of US President-elect Donald Trump, expressing its readiness to discuss strengthening security in Greenland or increasing the US military presence on the island.

Denmark acknowledged on Thursday it had long neglected the defence of Greenland, a vast and strategically important Arctic island, after President-elect Donald Trump said acquiring the Danish sovereign territory was vital for U.

Danish officials now believe this was a calculated move by Russia to sow division within NATO and expand its influence, as reported by BILD. In 2019, Denmark dismissed Trump's proposal ...

"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.