Russia’s biggest warship, the nuclear-powered battle cruiser “Pyotr Veliky” and the destroyer “Severomorsk” are sailing towards the activated warning zone halfway between northern Norway and Iceland.
Governor Andrei Chibis on Friday traveled to the bases of the 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 61st Navel Infantry Brigade located in the Pechenga area near Norway and Finland.
In a campaign supported by the regional governor, pictures of the letter Z painted in nationalist orange and black colors are handed out to locals in the far northern Russian region.
Sources claim that troops from the 200rd Motorised Rifle Brigade were shelled near Kharkiv and marines from the 61st Naval infantry brigade prepare landing operations near Black Sea cities.
Vladimir Medinsky has by critics been compared to a 'propaganda minister of the Third Reich.' On the day before Russia's massive attack on Ukraine, he visited the far northern city of Murmansk.
Different nationality backgrounds, but united in a call for Putin to end the war. Norwegians, Russians and Ukrainians marched in protest towards the border on the Pasvik River.
Dramatic escalation of the conflict on Sunday as President Vladimir Putin tells his defense minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of general staff Valeri Gerasimov to put the strategic nuclear weapons to "a special mode of combat duty."
After the Council of Europe on Friday suspended Russia’s rights of representation, the country’s deputy chairman of the Security Council says this is a good opportunity to restore the death penalty for the most severe crimes.
Three large assault landing ships from Severomorsk attack Ukraine with soldiers and amphibious vehicles from the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade. There are reportedly also soldiers, weapons and vehicles from the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade in the border war zone to Ukraine.
President Putin has praised the weapon as part of Russia’s new unrivaled missile systems but this is the first time ever such launch has taken place in waters between mainland Norway and Svalbard.
Vladimir Putin had invited Belarus despot Aleksandr Lukashenko to sit side by side when watching the screens on the wall in Kremlin's situation room as Russia’s military commanders showcased coordinated testing of the country’s nuclear triad on Saturday.
The Norwegian foreign minister warns against Russia's violations of international law and its use of military force. But she is careful about approaching Moscow over its planned missile shooting in the Norwegian Economic Zone.
"Impact Area for Russian missiles" reads the warning covering an area from the Varanger fjord in the east almost to the Bear Island in the northwest. Norwegian fishermen say it is "totally unacceptable."