You would be forgiven for believing the Russia and Norway do not share a border, or that travel between the two countries would have to come via Sweden or Finland from a cursory glance at a map.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council ... Medvedev was standing in front of a map of Ukraine where the beleaguered country’s borders had been redrawn.

The alliance has stepped up intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities around the Baltic Sea amid concerns of Russian gray zone warfare.