“We are faced with a different Russia. I want to warn against the fact that some people see this as something that is going to pass. The situation has changed. And it has changed profoundly.”
There is “no going back to some sort of normality or some sort of back to normal business. Because that normality does not exist.”
Norway, a NATO member country, shares a northern border with Russia.
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Meanwhile war rages on in Ukraine, and a ceasefire negotiated in Minsk seems to be completely ineffective.
“I was quite keen on underlining when the agreement was a fact that I think we need to be prepared for this not to happen as we expect it to.”
“And what we have seen during the period of so-called ceasefire since the Minsk agreement is that facts on the ground are changing again, and especially the Russian side is using that period of time to both up their military presence but all to change the facts on the ground, which makes it even more difficult for us to reach a political agreement.”
