Russia’s Arctic coast is more than 15,000 miles long but the vast majority of it is off-limits.
It’s part of a highly militarised "border security zone" where access is forbidden without special permission.
In the past two decades, Russia has reopened and modernised more than 50 mothballed, Soviet-era military posts along its frozen frontier.
It’s expanding its icebreaker fleet (which is already the world’s biggest and most advanced) and, last October, Moscow test-fired a nuclear-powered cruise missile from its Novaya Zemlya archipelago. All this has made NATO nervous and it’s why Donald Trump says the US needs Greenland.
Sky’s Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett reports.
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