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A volunteer soldier from a North Russian region returned home after fighting in Ukraine with news of the devastation in the army. Meanwhile, the wife of another volunteer complained of sick fighters being left to die without medical help.
December 26, 2022
“This creates big problems for us. We lose one of the systems that we normally use for navigation,” says spokesperson Catharina Solli with the regional airliner Widerøe.
December 22, 2022
The Russian Defense Minister argues that "retaliatory measures are required" as Finland and Sweden now join NATO.
December 21, 2022
If Vladimir Putin really was afraid of NATO you would have thought one of the last brigades he would order to invade Ukraine was the one protecting the border near Russia’s nuclear submarines on the Kola Peninsula. He chose otherwise.
December 19, 2022
Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations deploys two brand new Mi-8 helicopters to its Arctic rescue center on the Kola Peninsula.
December 15, 2022
The Russian unit headed by Mikhail Popov reportedly eliminated more than 150 Ukrainian soldiers in a battle near Kharkiv. The warrior now gets a school named after him in his Arctic home town of Pechenga.
December 13, 2022
A big number of them were recruited from provincial towns and villages located far from the regional capitals. Many were in their early 20s.
December 05, 2022
Engels airbase is home to Russia’s long-range missile bombers Tu-95 and Tu-160, planes often flying missions outside Norwegian air space.
December 05, 2022
Robert Kvile, Oslo’s new ambassador to Moscow, was Monday told by Russia’s foreign ministry that charges against Russian citizens for flying drones in Norway are “politically motivated.”
November 28, 2022
Support for troops and military towns in the Kola Peninsula is a 'holy mission,' Murmansk Governor Chibis said as he met Patriarch Kirill in Moscow.
November 25, 2022
Volume of military exercise is on the rise in Northern Norway. This week is especially busy in the air, on land and at sea in the Ofoten and Troms regions.
November 23, 2022
The defence ministers of Finland, Norway and Sweden signed an updated statement of intent on Tuesday in Oslo that prioritises operations planning in the North.
November 23, 2022
After a period of restoration, the main church icon of the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade is returned to Sputnik, the garrison town located near the border to Norway and Finland. "It will give the marines inspiration to take part in special military operations," the local church says.
November 18, 2022
US Special Operation Wing on November 9 successfully test fired the newly developed Rapid Dragon weapon system off northern Norway.
November 11, 2022
Bishop Aleksandr of Plesetsk was happy to hear that locals in Vardø had found a plot of land to build a Russian Orthodox chapel. The location is just next to a military radar complex operated by the Norwegian Intelligence Service aimed at monitoring air- and space activities from northwest Russia.
November 10, 2022
Mobilised men from the far northern Russian border town say they are abandoned along the frontline in Ukraine without food and equipment.
November 09, 2022
The brand new Rapid Dragon is a highly potent weapon system that can launch a swarm of cruise missiles from a standard military transport plane. The United States, with NATO members, will for the first time exercise this strike capability inside the Arctic Circle over the Norwegian Sea, sometime from November 9 to 11.
November 05, 2022
An appeal court judgment dismisses the ruling by the district court in Tromsø to release Andrey Yakunin. The Russian, British businessman whose father is a Putin ally remains in arrest until November 29.
November 04, 2022
The latest Borei-A submarine "Generalissimo Suvorov" on Thursday successfully launched a Bulava ballistic missile from the White Sea that hit a target at the Kura range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
November 03, 2022
Norway’s reassurance policy towards Russia has for the most followed a practice that allied intelligence missions to airspace outside the Kola Peninsula should not take off, land, or fly over Norwegian airspace. On Wednesday, a U.S. Air Force plane was indeed inside Norwegian airspace, both before and after the flight aimed to monitor Russia's military forces from above the eastern Barents Sea.
November 02, 2022
25-year-old Danis Ishmuratov was the son of Fanis Ishmuratov, one of the 118 sailors killed when the "Kursk" submarine exploded in the Barents Sea in August 2000.
October 29, 2022
Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) har charged Mikhail Mikushin with gathering illegal intelligence while working under fake identity at UiT Arctic University of Norway.
October 29, 2022
The son of ex-Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin admits he flew a drone at Svalbard but for the public to know the purposes, he now shares insights from the expedition to the Barents Observer.
October 27, 2022
Ballistic missiles were launched both from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea and from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk region towards the Kura range on Kamchatka. Cruise missiles were launched toward targets in the Komi Republic from strategic bombers.
October 26, 2022
Norwegian police believe the man, who says he is Brazilian, in reality, is an undercover Russian agent.
October 25, 2022

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