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About 2,000 US soldiers, nearly 300 Norwegian and 4,500 Finns take part in the international brigade level exercise dubbed Northern Forest 24.

The number of military attaches attending the Russian Defense Ministry’s excursion to the Northern Fleet headquarters in Severomorsk continue to decrease. This year, the delegation included 60 diplomats from 42 countries.

Three-star General Aleksandr Lapin is appointed head of the Leningrad Military District.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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