According to Rosatomflot, the nuclear powered icebreaker continues to operate in normal mode along the Northern Sea Route, despite the damage to the hull. Rosatomflot says in the press statement that ...

Brand new LNG carriers North Light and North Moon have course for far northern Russian waters. Their four sister ships have been drifting for weeks in Arctic sea-ice following their inclusion in US ...

We had a problem with thick sea-ice, captain Aleksandr Gladkov says about the voyage from Severodvinsk to the naval base in ...

Russia's barbaric war in Ukraine is draining resources, but Leningrad Military District will in the longer run significantly ...

Donald Trump is scheduled to visit California this weekend to observe the wildfires, prompting him to recall Finnish forestry ...

The Nordic Council of Ministers has launched a new programme that aims to build up resilience and supporting local Arctic ...

"Every other mother and wife talks with third parties, including the enemy, about the location of their men in Ukraine. This information is compiled by the enemy and used for precision strikes." The ...

In 2024, Russian courts handed down at least 27 sentences to journalists, most of whom were accused of "spreading falsehoods about the armed forces of the Russian Federation", according to a report ...

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Thousands of soldiers from the three brigades inside the Arctic Circle, near the border with NATO, are killed or wounded on the battlefields in northern and eastern Ukraine over the last three years.