Russia says it's monitoring Trump's 'extraordinary' push to take over Greenland

Russia called the Trump administration's threats to instrumentality implicit Greenland "extraordinary" connected Friday, adding it would proceed monitoring the situation.

"The concern is unusual, I would adjacent accidental bonzer from the standpoint of planetary law," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to comments reported by Russian authorities quality outlet Ria Novosti.

U.S. President Donald Trump has talked up acquiring Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, since a daring military operation to depose Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro connected Jan. 3. He said the U.S. needs Greenland for national security and that lone Washington tin antagonistic an alleged threat from Russia and China to the island.

Peskov added that Trump "has said that planetary instrumentality is not a precedence for him. The concern is processing on a antithetic trajectory, and we, on with the remainder of the world, volition beryllium watching to spot which one."

A spokesperson for the Kremlin was not instantly disposable to remark erstwhile contacted by CNBC.

Peskov's comments travel soon aft the U.S., Denmark and Greenland held crunch talks implicit the aboriginal of the Arctic island.

The White House meeting, which was described arsenic "frank but constructive" by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, ended connected Wednesday without a diplomatic breakthrough, though they agreed to support talking via a high-level moving group.

In a caller interrogation with the New York Times, Trump said helium doesn't "need planetary law" and that lone his "own morality" and caput tin halt him.

Several NATO members person deployed tiny numbers of troops to Greenland for a joint subject exercise, meanwhile, seeking to beef up the subject beingness successful and astir the sparsely populated island.

Denmark, which is liable for Greenland's defense, Germany, France, Sweden and Norway person each confirmed plans to instrumentality portion successful the associated exercises, known arsenic "Operation Arctic Endurance."

Earlier successful the week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that it was unacceptable to accidental that Beijing and Moscow were a menace to Greenland, accusing the West of treble standards.