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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.

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.

Engels airbase is home to Russia’s long-range missile bombers Tu-95 and Tu-160, planes often flying missions outside Norwegian air space.

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.

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.

US Special Operation Wing on November 9 successfully test fired the newly developed Rapid Dragon weapon system off northern Norway.

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.

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.

Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) har charged Mikhail Mikushin with gathering illegal intelligence while working under fake identity at UiT Arctic University of Norway.

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.