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Increasingly complex exercises in which Russia’s Northern Fleet with short notice closes off larger areas of the Barents Sea create big problems for commercial fisheries.

The payload fairing of a giant Soyuz rocket will have reentry and crash somewhere around 75°N in the northwestern Barents Sea late Thursday evening.

Sailing from the United Kingdom, Iceland and North America, the Arctic convoys to the ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk became highly important for deliveries of weapons to the Soviet Union. The voyages were also among the most dangerous faced by any Allied sailors.

A large area in the eastern Barents Sea is closed off and new satellite images show massive activity at Pankovo, Russia's test launch site for the nuclear-powered cruise missile.

Vanishing sea ice gives Norway more waters to patrol. The hull for the first of three new Coast Guard ships to operate in the Arctic zone is now being towed from the shipyard in Romania.

Soldiers with the Northern Fleet’s special unit exercised operations in a simulated radioactive contaminated war zone in the Pechenga valley, some 15 kilometers from the border to Norway.

Danish Navy describes the situation as “dramatic” when the giant Oscar-II class submarine “Orel” drifted at 1,5 knots towards the island of Sejerø. Ropes were prepared for towing and two other Russian warships came to assist.

The first group of navy ships and submarines that participated in the naval parade in St. Petersburg last weekend sailed under Denmark’s Great Belt bridge Friday morning on their way north to the Kola Peninsula.

Russia's Defense Ministry says a successful launch of hypersonic Tsirkon cruise missile took place from the White Sea and hit a target on the coast of the Barents Sea.

But Moscow warns against foreign attempts to politicise global warming and stagger Russian developments in the Arctic.

Nuclear-powered battle cruiser Pyotr Velikiy on Thursday set course for the Barents Sea. It follows several of the Russian Navy's biggest ships.

Combat training will be conducted during the inter-fleet crossing from the Barents Sea around Scandinavia to the Baltic Sea. Russia's navy move happens simultaneously as NATO kicks off its anti-submarine warfare exercise Dynamic Mongoose outside Norway.