Starmer sends UK strike group to Arctic, cites rising Russia threat as Trump pushes Greenland deal

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the United Kingdom volition deploy its craft bearer onslaught radical to the North Atlantic and the High North aboriginal this year, marking a amusement of unit arsenic information tensions escalate crossed Europe.

Speaking connected Saturday astatine the yearly Munich Security Conference successful Germany, Starmer said the ngo would beryllium led by HMS Prince of Wales and carried retired alongside the U.S., Canada and different NATO allies.

"I tin denote contiguous that the U.K. volition deploy our bearer onslaught radical to the North Atlantic and the High North this year, led by HMS Prince of Wales, operating alongside the U.S., Canada and different NATO allies, successful a almighty amusement of our committedness to Euro-atlantic security," Starmer told the high-profile forum aimed astatine strengthening European defence and diplomatic ties.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer takes portion successful a sheet treatment with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during the Munich Security Conference successful Munich, Germany, Feb. 14, 2026.     (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS)

The High North — a word referring to the Arctic and surrounding regions — has go progressively strategical amid increasing Russian subject activity. 

The deployment is intended to bolster information against imaginable Russian threats, according to BBC News.

The announcement comes arsenic President Donald Trump has repeatedly reiterated involvement successful the U.S. acquiring Greenland, citing nationalist information concerns successful the Arctic regarding Russia and China.

Starmer warned that Moscow’s subject buildup could intensify adjacent if a bid statement is reached successful Ukraine, arguing that Russian rearmament would "only accelerate." 

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People with umbrellas locomotion past a pedestrian span with the logo of the Munich Security Conference successful Munich, confederate Germany connected Feb. 12, 2026.  (THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP via Getty Images)

Europe, helium said, indispensable beryllium prepared to "deter aggression" and, if necessary, beryllium acceptable to fight.

"We indispensable physique our hard power, due to the fact that that is the currency of the age," helium said.

The bearer onslaught radical is an planetary naval task unit led by the Royal Navy. It consists of 1 craft carrier, astir 40 aircraft, a frigate, a destroyer, a submarine and a proviso ship, according to BBC News.

HMS Prince of Wales, a astir $3.5 cardinal craft carrier, serves arsenic the Royal Navy’s flagship, BBC News reported.

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Trump has antecedently threatened tariffs connected Britain and different European countries unless an statement is reached allowing the U.S. to instrumentality power of the Danish territory. 

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer takes portion successful a sheet treatment with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during the Munich Security Conference successful Munich, Germany, connected Feb. 14, 2026.   (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS)

After gathering with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte successful precocious January, Trump announced that helium would not enforce tariffs that were acceptable to instrumentality effect Feb. 1 fixed they formed the "framework of a aboriginal woody with respect to Greenland and, successful fact, the full Arctic Region."

Trump told reporters extracurricular the White House connected Friday that the medication is "negotiating close present for Greenland," adding that, "We get on precise good with Europe." 

The president was besides asked astir the Munich Security Conference.

"If it wasn't for me, they'd beryllium paying 2% and not paying," Trump said of NATO allies. "They're paying 5% and they're paying. We person a precise bully narration with NATO."

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The three-day Munich league brings unneurotic satellite leaders, defence chiefs and information officials.

Starmer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.