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Olenya bombers’ missiles shot down in overnight attack on Ukraine

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, May 27, 2024 at 10:28
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Three Tu-95MS bombers from Olenya in arctic Russia launched 12 cruise missiles against targets in Ukraine on the night of

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Military investigators conduct raids in Murmansk region to enlist young men

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 15:47
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Military investigators are conducting raids at public places, dormitories and abandoned facilities in Murmansk region with the aim to find

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Men from north Russian navy towns refuse to fight, face jail for desertion

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 15:14
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By Atle Staalesen and Olesia Krivtsova Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the military court in Zaozersk,

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General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Against Russian aggression: Norway signs security agreement with Ukraine

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 12:04
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“We need to do more,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide underlined as he met Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv. As

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* Newsroom Picks * Geopolitics Geopolitics (Sweden) Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Sanctions are about to wreck Moscow’s grand Arctic projects

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 09:45
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It has been increasingly evident over the past two years; Moscow’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine and its subsequent

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Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Society (Canada) 

Yukon to Ukraine: how a group of Yukoners knew they had to do something

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 22, 2024 at 11:32
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When the war in Ukraine started more than two years ago, a group of Yukoners knew they had to do

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* Newsroom Picks * Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Oslo ups defence spending to 2 % of GDP

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 13:40
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“The situation out there and the needs here at home makes it necessary to now strengthen our Armed Forces,” says

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden officially joins NATO during ceremony in Washington

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 14:45
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Sweden joins a year after Finland, following delay due to resistance from Turkey, Hungary Sweden joined NATO in Washington on

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Putin issues warning about western troops in Ukraine, highlights nuclear threat

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 14:41
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday delivered a blunt message to the West, warning that it risks provoking a global

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Finland) 

Finnish volunteer soldier dies in Ukraine

Yle News
Posted: Friday, February 23, 2024 at 14:38
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The 21-year-old man from eastern Finland is the third Finnish citizen known to have died in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Sweden) Society Society (Sweden) 

Ukrainian refugees in Sweden on hopes and fears for the future

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, February 23, 2024 at 14:29
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Oleksandra Byelyavska and her young son came to Sweden in September 2022, after fleeing Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. While remaining

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Arctic Russian airbase “undoubtedly” on radar of Ukrainian armed forces: expert

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 13:16
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The Olenya airbase is undoubtedly on the radar of Ukrainian armed forces, says an expert after a wave of bombers

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) Russia 

Murmansk sends deadly new year greeting to Kyiv

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 15:37
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The air alarm howled across Ukrainian cities as Russia early morning 2nd of January launched attacks on the neighbouring country.

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) Russia 

Bombers from Kola Peninsula take center stage in terror bombing of Ukraine

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 29, 2023 at 10:26
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A group of nine Tu-95MS strategic bombers early Friday morning took off from the Olenya air base and few hours

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) Russia 

Reuters corrects translation error, Russia not sending artillery to Finnish border

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 11:03
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Russia is not sending self-propelled artillery to be stationed near the Finnish border, despite an erroneous Reuters report to that

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