A stalemate between Denmark and the US over Greenland is prompting Europeans to establish a military presence on the Arctic island after a high-level meeting failed to defuse US threats over its future.

The NATO security alliance that has protected Europe for decades finds itself with limited power to determine its own fate due to President Donald Trump’s desire for U.S. ownership of Greenland.

President Donald Trump warned NATO that the U.S. needs Greenland for national security, saying that Russia or China would take it otherwise.

Russia said on Thursday that NATO’s talk of Russia and China being a threat to Greenland was a myth designed to artificially whip up hysteria and that what it called the Western alliance’s policy of escalating confrontation in the Arctic was extremely dangerous.

Russia said on Thursday that NATO's talk of Russia and China being a threat to Greenland was a myth designed to artificially whip up hysteria and that what it called the Western alliance's policy of escalating confrontation in the Arctic was extremely dangerous.

Grynkewich stated at Sweden’s National Security Conference that Russia and China are escalating joint patrols in the Arctic, extending their presence from the Russian northern coast to north of Alaska and near Canada.

Russia's "massive" military losses in Ukraine are unsustainable, NATO Secretary General warns, as conflict set to enter fourth year with no clear end in sight.

NATO has begun transferring around 10,000 soldiers, equipment and vehicles to Germany for a major military exercise in the coming weeks under the shadow of the dispute over the status of Greenland. Dozens of vehicles belonging to an Italian military unit rolled off a cargo ship at the north-western German port of Emden early on Thursday.