Russia has the most powerful icebreaking fleet in the Arctic. But that’s not the only problem. The Russian navy intends to use new icebreakers of the 23550 project for combat operations in the Arctic, and the first of them, the Nikolai Zubov, was launched at the end of last year, the British The Telegraph stated.

Russia is the only country with nuclear—powered icebreakers and the only one with ice-class warships. The United States has only two icebreakers, both with conventional engines, unarmed and owned by the Coast Guard. One of them is more than half a century old, and the other recently had a fire.

Trump’s claims to Greenland are clearly not supported by convincing capabilities and proper military superiority

KRISTALL ROSTA previously reported that Russia is expanding its continental shelf in the Arctic