The Wagner PWC defector running across the border to Norway was quickly brought to Oslo because of extreme security considerations. He could be a major witness in war crime charges against Yevgeny Prigozhin.
April 7, 1989: Northern Fleet sub ‘Komsomolets’ K-278 sinks after fire in Norwegian Sea. 42 died, 27 rescued. Wreak still on the seabed with one reactor and two plutonium warheads.
Be aware, we are now witnessing a disinformation campaign by 🇷🇺 trolls claiming the drones attacking Olenya airbase, Kola Peninsula, are coming from 🇫🇮. Not true and aimed to distract attention away from the fact that air defense hasn’t improved much since Mathias Rust’s days.
Newly elected leader of 🇳🇴 Finnmark region snubs Moscow, wants 🇺🇦Volodymyr Zelensky to WW2 Red Army anniversary in 2024.
#Kirkenes
cuts all ties with 🇷🇺 Pechenga.
Sør-Varanger kommune vedtok i kveld å fortsette "vennskapsavtalen" med 🇷🇺Pechenga, en kommune som har sendt flere tusen soldater til Ukraina ☠️ Ordførerens bil er merket "Z", skoler, barnehager har våpenopplæring og støtten til krigsforbrytelsene er stor. Ufattelig pinlig.
The 'Sevmorput' and 'Newnew Polar Bear' sailed over the Balticconnector and the telecom cable in pair at the time the damage occurred. Now, they are following each other outside northern Norway, en route to Asia via the northern coast of Siberia.
1/2.
Så, Russland jammer GPS signaler over Øst-Finnmark og kødder med vår sivile sikkerhet. Mens 🇳🇴 nekter alliert NATO signalspaningsfly adgang til luftrommet øst av 24 °Ø, angivelig for å berolige 🇷🇺. Litt vanskelig å forstå i dagens situasjon.
Airspace over Kola Peninsula closed. Several passenger flights suddenly redirected, including this Emirates A380 that circled over
#Kirkenes
in 🇳🇴🇷🇺 border region before flying around Kola. Does anyone know what is happening?
Hvis noen lurer på hva som foregår rett over grensen i Sør-Varanger sin 🇷🇺 "vennskapskommune" Petsjenga har jeg samlet en liten billedkavalkade om barne- og ungdomsarbeidet.
#Skam
#Kirkenes
#Nikel
#СлаваУкраїні!
Severomorsk 🇷🇺 marks 1-year anniversary of Russia’s all-out war. For one or another reason, Norway’s bordertown
#Kirkenes
is still in friendship-agreement with this aggressive shadow-of-mordor settlement.
This August 2000 video can never be seen to often. Nadya Tylik, mother of a sailor from the Kursk submarine, shouted at Putin: ‘They’re dying for $50 a month, and you don’t care, pig.’ Then she get an injection and lost consciousness.
Today’s 🇺🇸 on-scene intelligence collection on 🇷🇺 (Kola Peninsula) went almost north to Utsjok 🇫🇮 to between 27° and 28° longitude, way east of what 🇳🇴 allows allied SIGINT flights in Finnmark.
For n't gang har kommunestyret i Sør-Varanger unnlatt å si opp sin skandaløse vennskapsavtale med 🇷🇺 Petsjenga, kommunen rett over grensen hvor krigsforbrytere vandrer fritt, barnehagebarn får våpenopplæring og ordføreren kjører rundt med sin Z-dekorerte bil. Ufattelig pinlig!
Norwegian Customs lack overview of attempted smuggling of banned goods to Russia via the North. While Estonia found that about every 7th person traveling to 🇷🇺 carried banned wartime products, 🇳🇴 can’t detail even one single confiscated microchip.
This is a good day for the environment. Northern Europe's largest SO2-polluter, the smelter in Nikel, closes forever. Last smelting took place this morning. Now, White Christmas can come.
#Nornickel
#Nikel
Will FSB push its primitive hybrid operation with migrants further north towards Salla 🇫🇮 and Storskog 🇳🇴 as Finland last week imposted restrictions on southern checkpoints?
После закрытия части финских КПП в Ленинградской мигранты смещаются на север и уже появились в южной Карелии. Думаю, что скоро увидим и в Мурманской области
Russia's war on Ukraine has come North. First time a 🇺🇦drone has hit a bomber at the
#Olenya
airfield inside the Arctic Circle. In
#Murmansk
region, some 200 km from 🇷🇺 border with 🇳🇴.
Russia again triggers NOTAM-warning for large
#BarentsSea
area, overlapping into 🇳🇴 EEZ north of Varanger fjord. Valid from early morning on Putin's birthday, October 7.
Jeg oppfordrer alle mine kollegaer i
@redaktorene
og journalister til lese denne meget godt poengterte kommentaren av
@cokristiansen
om pressens ansvar mot 🇷🇺 propaganda og varsomhet med kilder kontrollert av diktatorens informasjonsbyråer.
Mayor of
#Vard
ø in 🇳🇴 northeast corner wants to tear down Russian-initiated war monuments. 'They are misused by sympathisers and 🇷🇺 authorities,' he says.
Fire in some of the cabins onboard 🇷🇺 nuclear-powered containership Sevmoroput at port in Murmansk. No danger for the reactor, Rosatomflot assures. Let’s hope this troubled vessel will be out of operation for a looong time. ☢️⚛️
#Burevestnik
update: Rosatom's radiation data collection aircraft (Be-976) are on standby at Rogachevo air field (Novaya Zemlya), while the U.S. WC-135W Constant Phoenix atmospheric collection plane is arriving to the European theatre. Putin's birthday is Saturday, Oct. 7.
Russian propaganda has since June pushed a story about a secret $100 million Pentagon-operated military bio-lab at Bear Island in the 🇳🇴 Arctic. With Moscow's new Svalbard science initiative, the disinformation moves on. (⏬ Click to read)
LATEST: The most sensational news in the Norwegian FOKUS 2023 report is the assessment that Northern Fleet’s surface warships again sail with tactical nuclear weapons.
Quite spectacular story about how an 🇷🇺 agent from Murmansk built a web of contacts in Northern Norway, started to recruit spies to take photos of 🇳🇴 military installations and mapping of exile-Russians.
The paradox of friendship towns:
Vadsø and Murmansk this week sent one fire truck each to Ukraine 🇺🇦. (The armoured one from Murmansk went to illegally occupied Donetsk).
Norway closes Storskog border for Russians tourists and shoppers from May 29. "A response to Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine," says 🇳🇴 Justice Minister.
Leading 🇷🇺 opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated next to the Kremlin on this day 9 years ago. We in the Barents Observer have named our meeting room after him.
– Vi har ikke tatt inn over oss hvor galt det er på vei, poengterer
@kaeggen
.
- Sendrektigheten vi har sett når det gjelder både å øke produksjonen av ammunisjon og våpen – og å sende det til 🇺🇦, gir 🇷🇺 et mulighetsvindu som er svært bekymringsfullt.
Hammer and sickle, Soviet flags and slogans.
What is taken down across Russia's neighboring countries are hoisted, re-painted and new-made at Norway's Svalbard archipelago.
To år etter Russlands fullskala krig mot Ukraina velger gjenopprettede
@Finnmarkfylkesk
å bruke penger på å promotere reiseportalen de drifter som aktivt fremhever bruk av russiske statlige selskaper og hvordan du kan hygge deg med gode kulturopplevelser i Murmansk.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, the UK’s flagship aircraft carrier, will sail up Oslofjord with her carrier strike group on Monday.
The sight of the ship docked at Akershuskaia in central Oslo will be a real show of UK-Norway defence cooperation.
🇬🇧🇳🇴
#ukandnorway
#WeAreNATO
Listen to the answers in my interview with 🇷🇺 Consul General Nikolai Konygin (🇳🇴
#Kirkenes
) about how it is to lay wreaths on Liberation Day as Russia attacks another neighbouring country in Europe.
'Russerne kommer ikke. De er her allerede.'
Viktig sak i A-magasinet (paywall) om grenselandet mellom fred og krig i grenselandet mellom 🇳🇴🇷🇺
#Kirkenes
av
@Heleneskjegg
2/2.
NATO’s signalspaningsfly, som er utmerket til å spore kilder til GPS jamming, flyr nå regelmessig langs 🇫🇮 grense til 🇷🇺 helt nord av Inari. Med panoramasikt til Kolahalvøya. Hvorfor forhindrer 🇳🇴 bedre innsamling av data? Ja til økt NATO samarbeid for å sikre Øst-Finnmark.
Det er unnfallenhet overfor Putin-regimet at samarbeidsavtalen med Petsjenga ikke sies opp. Kommunen er hjem til 200. motoriserte infanteribrigade og 61. marineinfanteribrigade. Begge har sendt tusenvis av terrorsoldater til Ukraina.
Strange Russian Navy movements outside Norway. Viktor-III sub Tambov (B-448) steams along the surface, heading north together with two other Northern Fleet warships.
Kjære Norge,
Dette er flaut, pinlig, kvalmt og representerer absolutt ikke Kirkenes. Våre tanker er ikke på egen navle, men på hvordan sadisten Putins bombing av barn og sivile i Ukraina, samt terrorisering av eget folk hjemme, kan stoppes raskest mulig ❤️
An innocent religious act, or part of a larger militaryish geopolitical strategy? I have looked into the erection of a giant Russian Orthodox cross at Svalbard this week.
Kola Peninsula is again under drone attack. Locals have posted photos and videos. One shot down next to Olenya airbase, from where Russia frequently sends Tu-95MS bombers attacking civilian targets In 🇺🇦.
For one or another reason, 🇷🇺🛩 with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov avoided 🇸🇪🇫🇮 air space en route from Moscow to
#Troms
ø 🇳🇴 tonight for the
#BarentsCouncil
meeting.
Z-inspired troublemakers have for the third time in a week vandalised the tribute to
#Navalny
set up by locals in 🇳🇴
#Kirkenes
across the street from 🇷🇺
@rusgkkirkenes
. The “battle of portraits”is on.
Barents Observer, April 11, 2014: My editorial on how ripple effects from 🇷🇺 annexation of Crimea would harm cooperation up north. The text made regional politicians in northern 🇳🇴 call for limiting our editorial freedom 🤣😇 (They didn't succeed)
I guess the world has never witnessed a regime so afraid of a funeral as we today see in Moscow. Convoy of wagons with face-covered blackhats heading towards the church where
#NavalnyFuneral
takes place.
Сегодня в Москве должны пройти похороны Алексея Навального
Силовики выстроили ограждения на пути от метро Марьино ��о Борисовского кладбища. К храму съезжаются автозаки.
Видео: Медиазона
Norway's self-imposed restrictions hindering allied intelligence flights in the airspace east of Lakselv (24°E) becomes weaker and weaker. With today's flight, even comical. Guess it is only a question of time before we will see RC-135V over eastern-Finnmark.
Another first precipitated by new Cold War and NATO expansion: Instead of flying up and back to mission over Barents Sea, the USAF RC-135V Rivet Joint returned over Finland and Baltic States along the Russian border.
Kursk and August is no good combination for Putin. First a sub, then a oblast. August 12 marks the 24th anniversary for the disaster in the Barents Sea. Gonna be interesting to see how the memorial for the lost oblast will look like.
Interesting path by 🇷🇺 Northern Fleet tug Nikolay Chiker outside west coast of 🇳🇴. Is the Kazan (K-561) in the same area? And why did the Tambov (B-448), Admiral Levchenko and Ivan Green abort their announced participation in Russia' Main Naval Parade?
20 journalists that used to work for Meduza in Moscow have all left 🇷🇺. Also journalists from TV channel Dozhd’, radio and newspaper Novaya Gazeta are leaving.
Meanwhile, one of Rossiya's Special Flight Detachment aircraft landed at Murmansk airport a few hours ago. Said to bring Nikolai Patruchev to town. (Source Арктического Обозревателя on Telegram).
Russia's plan to attract international partners from 'friendly states' to Svalbard for research and higher education gets hindered. New 🇳🇴 Whitepaper from the Governments outlines strategy.
De er ikke veldig mange, de som støtter Putin-regimet her i Kirkenes. Men 9. mai lokker det russiske Generalkonsulatet dem frem for å markere ‘seiersdagen’. Blir interessant å observere.
Today, Barents Observer’s journalist Olesia Krivtsova called Nikolai Patruchev, a top ally of Putin for decades, and asked him about Navalny. Listen to the talk.