Wednesday news from the Barents Observer“Anyone can become a target regardless of location,” says Novaya Gazeta Europa editor Kirill Martynov after Navalny ally Leonid Volkov Tuesday evening was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania.They call themselves America’s Arctic Angels, the parachuting soldiers with the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division. Next week, the ultimate transpolar exercise kicks-off. Photos of 40 students who died during the war in Ukraine are displayed on the walls at the campus of The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø. The settlement of Zelenoborsky has lost six of its men in the war against Ukraine. One of the killed soldiers was only 19 years old. Russia’s new Navy commander has decades of experience from the north, including onboard ballistic missile submarines sailing the Barents Sea. Что нового на севере? Послушайте все наши новости за прошлую неделю в одном подкасте.
“Anyone can become a target regardless of location,” says Novaya Gazeta Europa editor Kirill Martynov after Navalny ally Leonid Volkov Tuesday evening was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania.They call themselves America’s Arctic Angels, the parachuting soldiers with the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division. Next week, the ultimate transpolar exercise kicks-off.Photos of 40 students who died during the war in Ukraine are displayed on the walls at the campus of The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø.The settlement of Zelenoborsky has lost six of its men in the war against Ukraine. One of the killed soldiers was only 19 years old.Russia’s new Navy commander has decades of experience from the north, including onboard ballistic missile submarines sailing the Barents Sea.Что нового на севере? Послушайте все наши новости за прошлую неделю в одном подкасте.
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Leonid Volkov, a long-time ally of the late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, visited the Barents Observer last winter. See link to interview below. Photo: Barents Observer | A soldier with the 11th Airborne Division packs up his parachute after an airborne operation. U.S. Army soldiers with this division now makes ready for a cross-Arctic flight. Photo: U.S. Army / Spc. Abreanna Goodrich | The photo of student Volodymyr Ivashchenko, 20, who died from mortar shelling, is displayed on the wall of the UiT campus. Photo: Elizaveta Vereykina | Among the killed soldiers from Zelenoborsky, Kola Peninsula, are (from left) Aleksandr Ivanov, Dmitry Bogdanov, Dmitry Domkov, Yegor Sidorenko and Vladislav Starinin. Ivanov was only 19 years old. Photo: bcollage based on photos from Telegram channels | Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev was Commander of the Northern Fleet from May 2019 to March 2024. Photo: Thomas Nilsen | | |