{"id":76326,"date":"2026-02-11T02:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/10\/norway-defence-chief-russia-nuclear-assets"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:38:05","slug":"norway-defence-chief-says-russia-could-invade-to-protect-nuclear-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76326","title":{"rendered":"Norway defence chief says Russia could invade to protect nuclear assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Norway\u2019s chief of defence Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, was critical of Trump\u2019s claim Nato troops stayed off frontlines<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s army chief has said Oslo cannot exclude the possibility of a future Russian invasion of the country, suggesting Moscow could move on Norway to protect its nuclear assets stationed in the far north.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t exclude a land grab from Russia as part of their plan to protect their own nuclear capabilities, which is the only thing they have left that actually threatens the United States,\u201d said Gen Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway\u2019s chief of defence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/10\/norway-defence-chief-russia-nuclear-assets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Norway\u2019s chief of defence Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, was critical of Trump\u2019s claim Nato troops stayed off frontlinesNorway\u2019s army chief has said Oslo cannot exclude the possibility of a future Russian invasion of the cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,633,415,221,634,1165,441,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-arctic","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-greenland","category-norway","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326\/revisions\/76327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}