Norway administers the demilitarized Svalbard archipelago. Moscow wants to fight for sovereignty - if necessary, as in the Ukraine war.
The Norwegian government will be concerned about the ease with which Yuri Trutnev is bridging the issue into the Ukraine War. The situation has now mutated from the category of “political games” to “threatening in the context of Ukraine war” It is not without reason that people in Norway are now arming themselves against their Russian neighbors.