Putin vows to beef up military in Arctic
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President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s military yesterday to step up its presence in the Arctic after Canada signaled its intention to claim the North Pole and surrounding waters.
“I would like you to devote special attention to deploying infrastructure and military units in the Arctic,” Putin told a Russian defense ministry meeting in televised remarks.
Russia has an overlapping claim to both the North Pole and large parts of the Arctic. The region is believed to include vast oil and natural gas reserves.
A government-sponsored diving team in 2007 planted a Russian flag on the seabed under the North Pole and the Kremlin has long mulled plans to deploy a large military presence in the region.
Putin told yesterday’s defense ministry meeting that “next year, we have to complete the formation of new large units and military divisions” in the Arctic that remain on constant combat alert.
He said Russia was “ever more actively reclaiming this promising region, returning to it” after a brief absence that followed the Soviet Union’s collapse.
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