Security
It is a move made to distract public attention from the scandalous sinking of frigate «Helge Ingstad», says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
In a new move not seen before, Russia announced navy rocket training in the Norwegian Sea. But that was about it.
The 23,000 square meter big installation that sunk in the waters near Murmansk hinders shipping in the area, explains Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
Third time in less than a month that the Russian navy warns about shooting exercises in Norway’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
Russian Ambassador to Helsinki, Pavel Kuznetsov, will have to meet in the Foreign Ministry on Monday.
Russia’s biggest floating dry docks might remain on the bottom of the Kola Bay.
The two Russian bombers were flying in international airspace simultaneously as NATO’s large Trident Juncture exercise takes place.
Photo: Press service, Northern Fleet
Photo: Press service, Northern Fleet
Photo: Press service, Northern Fleet
Photo: Press service, Northern Fleet
Photo: Press service, Northern Fleet
As the U.S. intends to exit the INF treaty, Russia’s Foreign Minister says the future of the treaty regulating strategic nuclear weapons in unclear.
Russia’s military-patriotic movement Yunarmiya (Youth Army) now exceeds 270,000 members, including these 45 schoolchildren in Severodvinsk lined up on the hatches of the Typhoon submarine’s ballistic missile silos.
Both Norway and Finland have brought up the jamming with Russia through diplomatic channels.
A comprehensive test program with the new radar is about to start aimed at having the modernized GLOBUS system operational in 2022.
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Civilian passenger planes lost GPS signals on flights over Finnmark.
Six strong steel wires bolted to shore keep the ill-fated frigate "KNM Helge Ingstad" stable as the Navy works day-and-night with the salvage operation.
GPS signals used for aircraft navigation in northeastern Lapland could be unreliable, Finland’s Air Navigation Services warns a week after similar warnings were issued in northernmost part of Norway.
The collision with an oil tanker early Thursday morning happened just north of Bergen.
The area of rocket test firings is only about 40 kilometers north of Gamvik and Berlevåg on Norway’s Barents Sea coast.
The Norwegian government planned to abandon the Air Force base in Andøya. But Nato might want it otherwise.
Five NATO countries participate with both navy vessels and surveillance aircrafts.
Last week of June will be noisy along Europe’s eastern border to Russia with exercises both in Finland and in the Baltic.
Eye On The Arctic
Defence Ministers from Finland, Sweden and the United States are scheduled to meet in Washington to discuss military cooperation between the three countries and the overall security policy situation, according to a press release from Finland’s defence ministry issued on Monday evening.
On Saturday, “Pyotr Velikiy” sailed out to the Barents Sea to exercise together with the air force and air defense.
«Reasons to believe it could be related to military exercise activities outside Norway’s broders,» says the Civil Aviation Authority to the Barents Observer.
One person is reported dead and Russia’s only aircraft carrier has been damaged as floating dry dock sinks into the waters of the Kola Bay.
One teenage bomber died and three were injured when an explosion rocked the premises of the regional security police.
On Friday, Norwegian F-16 fighter jets were again scrambled to meet a pair of Tu-95 flying south from the Barents Sea.
But Moscow warns that Sweden’s and Finland’s participation is jeopardizing regional stability.
State Duma lawmakers are preparing a law punishing soldiers if publishing any information about themselves on social media.
The vessels are part of Russia’s Baltic Fleet and have helicopters and marine infantry units on board.
Land forces will mainly exercise in southern Norway, while air forces will fly above the Arctic Circle from the airports Kallax, Rovaniemi, Bodø and Andøya.
Eye on the Arctic
A team of Russian officers has arrived in northern Finland to conduct a confidence and security-building evaluation visit of the Lapland Air Command, according to Finnish military officials.
Air support will be provided from the carrier USS “Harry S. Truman” when soldiers will train at shooting ranges in Troms.
Ballistic missiles were launched from submarines in the Barents- and Okhotsk Seas. Long-range aircraft were also in the air with dummy nukes.
The Russian navy has decided to the “Ivan Gren” should embark on an inter-fleet transfer from the Baltic to the Northern Fleet now in October.