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“…the situation is difficult. My own people want to nullify me, to shoot me,” the desperate soldier says in a video he sent home from his mobile phone.

The Government on Thursday added 7 billion kroner (€590 million) to Norway’s defense budget for 2024.

Military investigators are conducting raids at public places, dormitories and abandoned facilities in Murmansk region with the aim to find young men to send to the army commissariat.

A new missile brigade will be deployed in Karelia as part of the reestablished Leningrad Military District. Countering response to Finland joining NATO, Moscow says.

No deal on joint Arctic navy exercises, but Russia and China agree on search and rescue cooperation on the world’s oceans.

“We need to do more,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide underlined as he met Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv.

In March 2024, the courts handed down almost 700 sentences in cases of those "missing" from military service.

A significant number of sailors from the naval base towns in the Kola Peninsula are killed in Russia's war of aggression.

The Norwegian Army will expand from one to three brigades, of which two will be in northern Norway.

The Nordic country is buying big drones that are to enhance its ability to control maritime interests areas in the Barents Sea. They will be based at Andøya, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle.

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet was scrambled from the Kola Peninsula to identify the pair of U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers over the Barents Sea. Simultaneously were a Swedish and a U.S. intelligence gathering planes active north, west and south of the Murmansk region.

The ship operating under the stewardship of the Yamal-Nenets region is one of three vessels reportedly hit in this weekend's massive Ukrainian attack on occupied naval base Sevastopol. A significant number of sailors from the far northern Russian region has served on the vessel.