Russia says it's alarmed after a US Air Force visit to a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic

Russia said on Thursday it was alarmed by a trip to a Norwegian outpost in the Arctic by a US Air Force unit and urged Oslo to refrain from what it said were de-stabilizing moves in the strategic region.

A squadron of US Air Force staff visited Norway's air base on the island of Jan Mayen in the North Atlantic in November to test the airfield and to see whether US C-130J Super Hercules military transport planes can land there.