Under the cover of a NATO exercise dubbed “Arctic Endurance”, a Danish regiment and elite forces were sent to Greenland, as well as French alpine troops and German and Swedish soldiers, DR said.
It was a real deployment and not an exercise, another source told DR.
“There was no possible ambiguity,” he said. The troops were deployed with blood for transfusions and explosives, the source said to back up the claim that it was not an exercise.
Neither the Danish military nor its government, nor the Greenlandic government, have commented on the report.
Trump has repeatedly said he believes the US must control Greenland to ensure its national security, and has long refused to rule out the use of military force to get it.
Like the US, Denmark is a founding member of NATO.
After several intense weeks of aggressive remarks that plunged the alliance into its deepest crisis in years, Trump backed down from his threats on Jan 21, announcing that he had reached a “framework” agreement on Greenland with NATO’s secretary general, the details of which remain vague.
In the weeks that followed, NATO launched its Arctic Sentry mission to beef up security in the region, in which Danish and US forces are participating, among others.