Head of Norway's Joint Operative Headquarters Rune Jakobsen leads the delegation that on the 24th June attends war victory celebrations in the north Russian city.
"The flights are clearly a part of a plan of geopolitical and strategic signaling," says defense analyst Per Erik Solli and points to Russia’s long-range navy and air force operations south to the North Sea areas.
Professor Valery Mitko is President of the St. Petersburg Arctic Social Science Academy and got his education from the Higher Naval School of Radio Electronics in the 1960ties.
Russia's latest ballistic missile submarine "Knyaz Vladimir" was officially handed over to the Northern Fleet on Friday from the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, the city with the highest number of coronavirus-cases in the Arkhangelsk Oblast.
Simultaneously as the Northern Fleet sails the largest submarine maneuverer since the days of the Cold War, the “Knyaz Vladimir” Borei-class sub for the first time launched a test missile that cross the Arctic an hit the target on Kamchatka in the Far East.
Russia’s military-patriotic Yunarmiya – or Youth Army – got Norwegian funding to tour the country’s northeastern border region. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee says representatives of such movement should not have been invited to a peace anniversary.
High-level confidence building in Norwegian-Russian borderland on Friday made foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to soften the wording on Norway’s military policy.
"Russia has invented new weapons of war that harken back to an age when a nuclear balance of terror reigned," a U.S. State Department official said to the United Nations' Disarmament and International Security Committee.
NATO’s northernmost country with direct border to Russia’s militarized Kola Peninsula relies heavily on allied reinforcements, but lacks capacity to join when its allies will train how to provide support in a war scenario.
Just few days before international Arctic expedition MOSAiC crossed into the waters south of Franz Josef Land, the Northern Fleet held a major shooting exercise in the area.
Video footage from a beach near weapon testing area Nenoksa shows helicopters, excavators and men in protection gear involved in the removing of radioactive debris from last month’s nuclear accident.
With a longer range than previous systems, the S-400 will protect air space over the eastern Barents Sea where Russia’s ballistic missile submarines are patrolling.
