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Guards on alert at Norway's future Arctic drone base

The Norwegian government allocates additional funding for security at Andøya, the Arctic air base that soon will house long-range drones.
May 14, 2024

Military conscription office attacked with Molotov cocktail

In Russia, Molotov cocktails continue to be thrown at military recruitment offices. This weekend in the town of Suojarvi in Karelia, some 80 km from the border with Finland.
May 13, 2024

Wagner Group waved the flag on Victory Day in Murmansk

Masked men in military uniforms waved the Wagner flag during the 9th of May parade in Murmansk
May 10, 2024

Swedish police rules out sabotage angle in derailing accidents

No one with bad intentions were involved when the empty iron ore train heading back to Kiruna from Narvik derailed in late February.
May 08, 2024

Soldier with the 200th Brigade from Pechenga says commanders execute their own men

“…the situation is difficult. My own people want to nullify me, to shoot me,” the desperate soldier says in a video he sent home from his mobile phone.
May 05, 2024

New militant youth organisation opens center in Murmansk

The VOIN ("Soldier") training center will prepare Russian teenagers for service in the Armed Forces.
May 02, 2024

Norway to hike defense spendings in mid-year revised budget

The Government on Thursday added 7 billion kroner (€590 million) to Norway’s defense budget for 2024.
May 02, 2024

Nordic defence ministers highlight readiness for joint action

Although all members of NATO, the five Nordic countries will continue to strengthen their joint NORDEFCO military cooperation.
April 30, 2024

Hunt for men in military age starts in Murmansk region

Military investigators are conducting raids at public places, dormitories and abandoned facilities in Murmansk region with the aim to find young men to send to the army commissariat.
April 30, 2024

Murmansk double killer pardoned to fight in Ukraine

Alexei Teplykh, 49, was sentenced to 13,5 years in a maximum-security colony in 2023 for beating his ex-wife and her new partner to death.
April 30, 2024

Finland relaxed over Moscow’s plans to deploy Iskander-M missiles near border

A new missile brigade will be deployed in Karelia as part of the reestablished Leningrad Military District. Countering response to Finland joining NATO, Moscow says.
April 24, 2024

US Army sends heavy equipment to Norwegian Arctic port of Narvik for transfer to Finland

In a manifestation of Nordic NATO unity, more than 200 vehicles and 300 containers are sent from the USA to Narvik and further to an allied exercise in Finland.
April 24, 2024

Admiral Moiseev signs MoU with Chinese navy

No deal on joint Arctic navy exercises, but Russia and China agree on search and rescue cooperation on the world’s oceans.
April 22, 2024

Russia’s Defence Ministry says its new mini-sub will be able to dive to 11,000 meters depth

It will be operated by GUGI, the notorious deep sea espionage and sabotage unit of the Russian military.
April 19, 2024

Against Russian aggression: Norway signs security agreement with Ukraine

“We need to do more,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide underlined as he met Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv.
April 16, 2024

Moscow says it will build drone bases along Arctic coast

Several bases for long-range drones will be built along the Northern Sea Route, a representative of the Russian Defence Ministry says to newspaper Izvestia.
April 15, 2024

Military courts in Russia prosecute a record number of front-line deserters

In March 2024, the courts handed down almost 700 sentences in cases of those "missing" from military service.
April 12, 2024

Norwegians, Americans build Arctic satellite station against enemy cruise missiles

It will be built at Andøya, northern Norway, and be the first of its kind outside the USA.
April 11, 2024

Submariners from Russia's Northern Fleet fight and fall in Ukraine

A significant number of sailors from the naval base towns in the Kola Peninsula are killed in Russia's war of aggression.
April 10, 2024

"This is a historical strengthening of our Armed Forces"

Norway will almost double its military spending and reach 3 percent of GDP by 2036, a new long-term defence plan shows.
April 05, 2024

Norway steps up high north defense with fully equipped brigade in Finnmark

The Norwegian Army will expand from one to three brigades, of which two will be in northern Norway.
April 05, 2024

They are frequently terror-bombing Ukraine. Today two of them were met by Norwegian fighter jets up north

"Around 10 am today two F-35 were scrambled from Evenes to identify Russian aircraft," says spokesperson Jonny Karlsen with the Norwegian Joint Headquarters.
April 03, 2024

Norway establishes Arctic base for long-range drones

The Nordic country is buying big drones that are to enhance its ability to control maritime interests areas in the Barents Sea. They will be based at Andøya, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle.
April 03, 2024

Russia starts Friday with large-scale air attack on Ukraine, Tu-95 bombers from Murmansk active

Strategic bombers from Olenya airbase strike targets across Ukraine Friday morning in yet another massive terror attack against civilians and infrastructure.
March 29, 2024

U.S. strategic bombers fly second Barents Sea mission this week

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet was scrambled from the Kola Peninsula to identify the pair of U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers over the Barents Sea. Simultaneously were a Swedish and a U.S. intelligence gathering planes active north, west and south of the Murmansk region.
March 26, 2024

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