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The defence ministers of Finland, Norway and Sweden signed an updated statement of intent on Tuesday in Oslo that prioritises operations planning in the North.

US Special Operation Wing on November 9 successfully test fired the newly developed Rapid Dragon weapon system off northern Norway.

An appeal court judgment dismisses the ruling by the district court in Tromsø to release Andrey Yakunin. The Russian, British businessman whose father is a Putin ally remains in arrest until November 29.

Norway’s reassurance policy towards Russia has for the most followed a practice that allied intelligence missions to airspace outside the Kola Peninsula should not take off, land, or fly over Norwegian airspace. On Wednesday, a U.S. Air Force plane was indeed inside Norwegian airspace, both before and after the flight aimed to monitor Russia's military forces from above the eastern Barents Sea.

Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) har charged Mikhail Mikushin with gathering illegal intelligence while working under fake identity at UiT Arctic University of Norway.

Ballistic missiles were launched both from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea and from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk region towards the Kura range on Kamchatka. Cruise missiles were launched toward targets in the Komi Republic from strategic bombers.

The Norwegian and British warships sailing just north of the Kola Peninsula were closely shadowed by the Northern Fleet. “This is part of the new normal,” a Norwegian navy commander said.

Political leaders in Kirkenes criticize the local Head of Police following her call to close north Norwegian seaports for Russian fishing boats. Norway must not have an 'isolationist policy' towards Russia, they argue in a joint statement.

Police in Finnmark on Monday arrested 47-year-old Andrey Yakunin in Hammerfest, accused of flying a drone at Svalbard and possibly at other locations in Norway. This is the fourth time in a week that police makes an arrest on suspicion of illegally flying drones or photographing classified objects north in Norway.

The week ahead will not be an easy sleep for security observers. Numerous military watchouts in Russia's northwestern regions.

"Return home safely," a woman sings in a farewell performance to hundreds of Russian reservists lined up for war. But the singer and her music band hardly reassures the growing number of relatives who say their men are badly equipped, ill-treated and unprepared for battle.