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Ahead of deployment in Ukraine, mobilized men are sent to training facilities in Pechenga, the Russian border region to Norway. They are told that they are on a "holy mission" against America and its allies.
October 10, 2022
Norway takes measures so Russian fishing vessels can't bring illegal, sanctioned products out of Europe. From now, port calls will only be allowed to Kirkenes, Tromsø and Båtsfjord. And every single ship will there be controlled.
October 06, 2022
“We are strengthening facilities for the reception of, and training with, allied forces in northern Norway,” says Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram as he presented the 2023 budget at the Army’s border guard camp on the border with Russia.
October 06, 2022
They are friendship towns, but when the priests from the Russian Orthodox Church wanted to learn more about the drinking water facilities, the Mayor of Kirkenes had to put a stop to it.
October 05, 2022
Leader of Arkhangelsk Oblast Aleksandr Tsybulsky argues that social media give an unjust, negative picture of the situation on the front.
October 04, 2022
Recent satellite images show that Russia has deployed four Tu-160 and three Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers north to the Olenegorsk air base on the Kola Peninsula.
October 03, 2022
"All of Yamal is with you," the governor of the far northern Russian region proclaimed as he wished his drafted countrymen farewell. Meanwhile, an indigenous peoples organisation in exile calls on all Russian northerners to sabotage the mobilisation.
September 28, 2022
"The incident in the Baltic Sea gives reason to maintain and strengthen measures to protect the petroleum industry," says Tone Vangen, Director of Norway's Police Directorate’s Emergency Preparedness.
September 28, 2022
Two of Russia’s newest nuclear-powered submarines have completed a 5,500 nm voyage under the Arctic ice cap.
September 28, 2022
An unofficial visit to the port of Murmansk previously agreed upon between FSB Border Guards and the Norwegian Joint Headquarters will not take place.
September 26, 2022
Vladimir Prokushev (36) believes the majority of those being sent to war have very little motivation to fight against Ukraine.
September 25, 2022
A short day after Putin’s call-up for the so-called partial mobilization are big companies on the Kola Peninsula in full swing providing “quotas” with young men to be sent to the killing fields in Ukraine.
September 23, 2022
Hundreds of Northern Fleet soldiers are killed in Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraina. Others are sent on exercise to the northernmost tip of the Eurasian continent.
September 22, 2022
The Russian Ministry of Energy issues notes to national energy, metal and mineral companies requesting 100% of employees to show up at military recruitment offices.
September 22, 2022
Leader of the far northern and heavily militarised region says a draft board under his command is starting to fulfil the president's mobilisation order.
September 21, 2022
“We’re at war with the collective West,” Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu added after Putin's speech Wednesday morning.
September 21, 2022
Russia is about to scale up its dangerous testing of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, according to a study of satellite images obtained by military analyst Tony Roper.
September 18, 2022
Thousands of kilometres from the violent coasts of the Black Sea, a potent Russian naval force arrives in the New Siberian Islands.
September 13, 2022
The “Krasnoyarsk” and “Generalissimo Suvorov” are the most advanced nuclear submarines ever built by the Sevmash yard.
September 13, 2022
An unconfirmed Ukrainian military source claims that up to 250 soldiers from the Northern Fleet’s 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Pechenga are killed in the latest counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region.
September 11, 2022
Regional Governor Vladimir Uiba says the warriors from his Komi Republic will be a an important "contribution to great victory." But the group of men that this week was sent to the battlefields in Ukraine did not look victorious.
September 02, 2022
Government officials from Murmansk have hastened to heavily affected brigades in the Pechenga area and made pledges about investments and local development projects.
September 01, 2022
A record high 880 Swedish soldiers have crossed the northern border to Finland for a week-long exercise kicking off on Monday. British troopers are also participating.
August 28, 2022
The organization that normally engages in paramilitary training of kids and youth is to lead a new regional effort to prepare volunteers for combat in Ukraine. Contractors are offered big salaries and could end up serving mercenary Wagner Group.
August 26, 2022
Finland will host the defence ministers of Norway and Sweden on Thursday to talk about the “changing security environment” facing the Nordic countries.
August 25, 2022

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