The Kremlin called the difficult situation with the restriction of supplies from Norway to Svalbard

“We hope that it will still be possible to resolve this problem through dialogue,” Peskov said.

On June 28, Norway rejected Russia's application for the passage of goods for Russian settlements on Svalbard through the only checkpoint on the Russian-Norwegian border - Storskog.

Russian Consul General in Svalbard Sergei Gushchin, commenting on Norway's refusal to allow cargo to pass for Russian settlements, suggested that the Norwegian authorities had not thought through all the consequences of this step.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin instructed the House Committee on International Affairs to study the issue of denunciation, or suspension, of the treaty between Russia and Norway on the delimitation of maritime spaces and cooperation in the Barents Sea.