“Canada has repeatedly exposed Russia’s responsibility in malicious cyber activity," the statement said.

The Kremlin has made military modernization its top priority amid tensions with the West that followed the 2014 Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea.

Several countries, including China and Russia, have a vested interest in Greenland.

The Russian military on Wednesday joined efforts to fight forest fires that have engulfed nearly 30,000 square kilometers of territory in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

NATO's biggest military manoeuvrs since the Cold War kicked off Thursday in Norway in a hypothetical scenario that involves restoring the Scandinavian country's sovereignty after an attack by a "fictitious aggressor."

The weeklong Vostok (East) 2018 maneuvers span vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans and showcase the military might of Russia and China.

Russian military confirmed on Tuesday that a military helicopter on a rural training exercise in the western part of the country mistakenly fired rockets at a group of parked vehicles and spectators.