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Convicted Commander of Arctic marines is killed in battle
4 hours ago · 14 November 2024 - 14:49. "With grief we inform that our fellow soldier and inhabitant of Sputnik Yaroslav Sergeevich Kurcheev has died on the territory of the special military operation," a social media post from the closed military town reads. "He served many years in the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade. Everyone remembers him as a kind and ...
US warships sailed into the Barents Sea
Oct 23, 2024 · The USS Jason Dunham and USS Stout are part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group currently operating further south outside Norway.. Although the U.S. Naval Forces Europe in a press-release Wednesday evening tells that this is a “route maritime operates in the Barents Sea”, facts are different. US surface warships have stayed away from these waters after Russia launched its full ...
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(Opinion): Can Norway be a climate advocate in the UN Security Council while the country clings to its fossil fuel production? The Barents Observer follows the Code of Ethics of the Norwegian Press and the document Right and Duties of the Editor. We report under full editorial independence and have ...
"It will take 10 years to remove all the rusty barrels..."
1 day ago · The Clean Arctic estimates that it will take 10 years minimum to remove all the rusty barrels from the Chelyuskin cape. Meanwhile, experts accuse the Clean Arctic project and Russian authorities of masking the true extent of pollution in the Arctic. Ksenia Vakhrusheva, a project manager with the environmental NGO Bellona, is critical of such a ...
U.S. strategic bombers fly second Barents Sea mission this week
26 March 2024 - 01:00. The American bombers’ mission is the second in a few days to areas outside Russia’s strategic important submarine bases on the coast of the Barents Sea. On Sunday, the U.S. planes were met by a MiG-31, as reported by the Barents Observer. Flight patterns for the mission on Tuesday is not detailed, but the American ...
Consul General Konygin closes doors in Kirkenes after dialogue …
Oct 15, 2024 · With doors now closed in Kirkenes, Russia's remaining diplomatic missions in Norway is limited to the embassy at Drammensveien 74 in Oslo and its attached visa-section and trade mission. Barentsburg. Also Russia's Consulate General in in Barentsburg, the coal mining settlement on Svalbard, has suspended its consular services.
Norwegian fishermen snagged U.S. nuclear-powered submarine
1 day ago · The US Navy confirms via the Embassy in Oslo to NRK the incident with the 10 meters small Norwegian fishing boat Øygutt. The submarine got part of the gear from the net in her propeller, likely when she was still sailing at surface. The new security situation in Europe, including in the north, requires closer naval cooperation between NATO ...
Drones, not tanks, on Russia's training ranges along NATO border
2 days ago · Drones, not tanks, on Russia's training ranges along NATO border. The Northern Fleet keenly shows off how its servicemen fly drones on training grounds near Norway and Finland. But there has hardly been a tank or an armoured vehicle on display in the far northern local brigades since the start of the full-scale war. Atle Staalesen.