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Putin announces 'Partial' military mobilization

“We’re at war with the collective West,” Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu added after Putin's speech Wednesday morning.
September 21, 2022

New study reveals comprehensive buildup of nuclear missile test-ground at Novaya Zemlya

Russia is about to scale up its dangerous testing of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, according to a study of satellite images obtained by military analyst Tony Roper.
September 18, 2022

A place of calm: Northern Fleet sailors arrive in remotest Arctic archipelago

Thousands of kilometres from the violent coasts of the Black Sea, a potent Russian naval force arrives in the New Siberian Islands.
September 13, 2022

Russia tests latest underwater warfare technology in the Barents Sea

The “Krasnoyarsk” and “Generalissimo Suvorov” are the most advanced nuclear submarines ever built by the Sevmash yard.
September 13, 2022

Tankers day celebrated in Pechenga despite reports of massive new war losses

An unconfirmed Ukrainian military source claims that up to 250 soldiers from the Northern Fleet’s 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Pechenga are killed in the latest counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region.
September 11, 2022

Here Komi fighters go to war

Regional Governor Vladimir Uiba says the warriors from his Komi Republic will be a an important "contribution to great victory." But the group of men that this week was sent to the battlefields in Ukraine did not look victorious.
September 02, 2022

As more warriors from Pechenga perish in war, local military towns face overhaul

Government officials from Murmansk have hastened to heavily affected brigades in the Pechenga area and made pledges about investments and local development projects.
September 01, 2022

A thousand foreign soldiers join Lapland exercise

A record high 880 Swedish soldiers have crossed the northern border to Finland for a week-long exercise kicking off on Monday. British troopers are also participating.
August 28, 2022

Patriot Center in Arkhangelsk starts training of new warriors

The organization that normally engages in paramilitary training of kids and youth is to lead a new regional effort to prepare volunteers for combat in Ukraine. Contractors are offered big salaries and could end up serving mercenary Wagner Group.
August 26, 2022

Defence ministers of Norway, Finland, Sweden to talk security at Thursday meeting

Finland will host the defence ministers of Norway and Sweden on Thursday to talk about the “changing security environment” facing the Nordic countries.
August 25, 2022

Corvette sailed north via inner waterways and launched Kalibr cruise missile

The special maneuver happened amid the Northern Fleet’s Barents Arctic exercise and shows how Russia can move highly potent missiles from the Baltic Sea to the North without sailing around NATO-controlled Scandinavia.
August 24, 2022

Loaded with military propaganda, warship setting sail on Arctic voyage

Framed with children in military uniforms, the festivities at the pier in Severomorsk on Monday were dedicated to supporting the war on Ukraine. Russia’s first propaganda voyage with the large landing ship "Ivan Gren" will sail to a number of remote ports and last until early October.
August 23, 2022

Scandinavian fighter jets in joint training with American B-52 bombers above Arctic Circle

Simultaneously as Russia’s Northern Fleet kicks off a larger exercise in the Barents Sea is NATO flexing muscles in the skies above northern Scandinavia showing how future military operations will look like with new members joining.
August 18, 2022

Northern Fleet kicks off large Barents-Arctic naval exercise

Surface warships, submarines and aviation are involved in waters from the Kola Peninsula to Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya. One shooting area overlaps into Norwegian exclusive economic zone north of the Varanger fjord.
August 18, 2022

UK denies violation of Russian airspace over the Barents Sea

“The UK aircraft was in communication with Russian civilian air traffic control and its crew operated in a safe and professional manner,” a Ministry of Defense spokesperson told media in London.
August 17, 2022

Russia accuses British spy plane of violating airspace north of Kola Peninsula

A British RC-135 with equipment to collect real-time electronic intelligence data was forced out of Russian airspace by a MiG-31, the Defense Ministry in Moscow claims. Norwegian Defense analyst doubts that that the plane was inside Russian air space.
August 16, 2022

Russian fishermen violated shore leave regulations, took the skiff towards area with military restrictions

Crew members from Murmansk-based trawler “Melkart-5” is fined by police after they lowered a small boat on the water and left the harbor area in Kirkenes. Norway is the only EU-associated country allowing Russian fishing vessels to make port calls.
August 15, 2022

North Russian governor promises heavenly protection for warriors in Ukraine

An angel will watch over you, Governor of the Arkhangelsk region assures local soldiers ahead of their departure to the battlefields in Ukraine.
August 10, 2022

Russia warns of rocket splashdown north of Svalbard

Watch out on August 9th as Russian is to launch a cluster of satellites, including one for Iran aimed to spy at military targets.
August 08, 2022

Russian subs outside Norway

The two Northern Fleet nuclear-powered submarines "Severodvinsk" and "Vepr" are sailing interfleet transit back north to the Kola Peninsula.
August 07, 2022

Murmansk Governor Andrei Chibis makes visit to occupied Ukrainian land

The leader of the far northern Russian region goes to occupied territories where he meets with rebel leaders and offers support for further aggression against Ukraine.
August 05, 2022

New Russian war monument near border to Norway praises battle and aggression in Ukraine

The flags of Moscow’s two puppet regions, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, waived in the air as locals from the Pechenga district gathered for the opening of a monument honoring war and bravery in Ukraine.
July 26, 2022

Murmansk offers 100,000 rubles cash in recruitment campaign for Ukraine war

Governor Andrei Chibis takes a more active role in the Ukraine war and promises payment by signing to "Arctic patriots."
July 24, 2022

Military-patriotic Yunarmiya sanctioned by the EU

As Russia scales up military training of children, the European Union imposes sanctions against the organization Yunarmiya (Young Army).
July 23, 2022

The two nuclear subs sailing to St. Petersburg surfaced northwest of Haakonsvern naval base

While Norwegian officials are reluctant to give details, the British Royal Navy now tells how they shadowed the two Russian Northern Fleet submarines "Vepr" and "Severodvinsk" as they made their underwater journey south along the coast of Norway from the Arctic.
July 22, 2022

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