The article said that in May the United States made it clear to Canada that Ottawa "must forget about its right to the northwestern Arctic corridor."

At the same time, the United States demanded that Beijing shut down stations in Iceland and Norway, as well as stop investing in the infrastructure of the Russian Northern Sea Route.

Washington also believes that Russia needs to withdraw troops from its Arctic regions, the author of the article said.

According to Milosevic, in this way in Washington they became supporters of the fact that the Northern Sea Route became common, and not exclusively Russian.

He also said that this sea route is of interest to the United States as a means of pressure on Moscow, since for Russia the Northern Sea Route is also an international logistics corridor and an internal transport artery.

In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was considering the possibility of docking the Northern Sea Route with the Chinese Sea Silk Road.