These representatives of the Northern Fleet’s motorized infantry brigade know how to chop a melon with a tank gun.

Government officials from Norway are no longer allowed to bring work-phones to Russia, and even near-border areas can be problematic.

A group of at least eight ships sails into east Arctic waters at the same time as a major unannounced drill unfolds in Russia’s Eastern Military District.

About 30 top-trained servicemen from the Northern Fleet are taking part in a major exploratory operation through the northern parts of the Arctic archipelago.

It was early morning 10th October 1957 when Captain Georgy Lazarev slowly sailed his «S-144» submarine into the quiet waters of the Chernaya Guba to conduct the first ever launch of a nuclear torpedo. More than 60 years later, his devastating blast is honoured with a monument on site.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Russia would react if Finland and Sweden joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Still not clear when FSB wants to bring the spy case in for court.

The Oscar-II class vessel is similar to the Kursk that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000.

MiG-31 interceptors and Su-24 bombers are training aerobatics and aerial reconnaissance.

Eight nations, seven surface warships, three maritime patrol aircraft and two submarines. Click on the gallery above to see the photos from Exercise Dynamic Mongoose 2018.

While Russia’s largest exercise over the last ten years in the Barents Sea comes to an end, eight NATO nations sail north for a two weeks’ exercise.