The situation in the Arctic "heats up", Russia does not give up, sends nuclear weapons to the North Pole

Russia has intensified its military activity in the Arctic region recently. Last month, the Northern Fleet began large-scale exercises involving 1,800 soldiers, up to 15 ships and 40 aircraft. Experts even believe that Russia has made concerted efforts to strengthen its control in the region, which it has already militarized to a large extent. But an intelligence report from Norway published earlier this year claims that Russia may soon send nuclear-armed ships to the Arctic for the first time in nearly three decades. The report warns that although Russia already poses a serious operational threat to NATO and Norway with its anti-satellite missiles, submarines and cyber capabilities, nuclear-armed ships will pose an even greater danger. "With the increasing importance of nuclear weapons and strategic deterrence forces, the Northern Fleet's defense of military bases in Kola, Northern Bastion and the Barents Sea is also becoming more important," the Norwegian Intelligence Service said in its annual report. The report gave the impression that this was the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War that Russia possessed tactical nuclear weapons on its warships. Norwegian intelligence also stated that there was a chance that a small skirmish would escalate into a major conflict involving Norway, NATO and the United States. However,