Norway refuses to tickle Russia’s nerves

Norway has refused to participate in NATO exercises in the Barents Sea. Norwegian experts say that such activities are not a priority for Oslo, plus they are impractical and even dangerous. NATO ships entered the Barents Sea Last week, the NATO leadership informed the Russian Ministry of Defense that destroyers of the US Navy USS Porter, USS Donald Cook, USS Franklin Roosevelt and the frigate HMS Kent of the British Navy would enter the Barents Sea to conduct exercises. USS Porter and USS Donald Cook are equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and Aegis missile defense system. The warships are permanently deployed in Europe at the Spanish military base in Rota. Together with the ground-based missile defense points in Poland and Romania, these destroyers constitute the European missile defense system program.