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Vladimir Uiba regularly appears in public with the insignia of the paramilitary group on his jacket. The Komi leader might have been connected with Wagner and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin for several years.

"The land forces on Kola are reduced to a fifth of their original numbers before the invasion of Ukraine," says Chief of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes to the Barents Observer. He warns that the consequence is a Russia which may lower the threshold for nuclear escalation, also near Norway.

Amid efforts to boost local patriotism and fighting spirit, the number of men from the north Russian region killed on the battlefields in Ukraine rises to more than 30 in two months.

After 41 years in Arctic waters, the giant Cold War weapon TK-208 “Dmitri Donskoy” is withdrawn from service.

The motorised rifle brigade in Pechenga is exercising with multiple-launch rocket system Grad and self-propelled guns Akatsia only few kilometres from the two Nordic countries.

Norway’s waters to patrol have expanded dramatically in recent years as previous ice-covered areas around Svalbard now are easier to navigate for fisheries, cruise tourism, cargo vessels and foreign warships.

Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram on Wednesday confirmed that Leopard 2A4 tanks will be sent to Ukraine.

Hundreds of men are perishing every day, but leader of the north Russian Komi Republic assures that his mobilized countrymen are all fine.

A series of throw tests of Poseidon mockups from the special purpose submarine “Belgorod” is completed in the Barents Sea, but fully operative versions are likely years into the future.

The militant clergyman known for his kickboxing skills and hardline Orthodoxy brings his cross and military gear to fight Ukrainans in Donbas.

Russia significantly increased its modern naval nuclear forces on Thursday as one new Borei-A class submarine was handed over to the navy at the shipyard in Severodvinsk.