VARDØ: On duty round the clock monitoring tankers and other risk traffic in the Barents Sea and along the coast of Norway. The amount of oil shipped out from Russia has not increased and no voyages with nuclear waste have taken place this year.
We have no other choice but to build a New Army, Vladimir Putin underlines in his justification of the historical 600 billion EUR Russian military upgrade.
A Norwegian Hercules C-130J military transport plane with five people on board went missing on Thursday afternoon between Evenes in Northern Norway and Kiruna in Northern Sweden.
The maritime surveillance aircraft was flying a routine mission over the Barents Sea when the Russian fighter jet came from behind so fast and close it was in danger of a mid-air collision.
The aircraft carrier “Vikramaditya” experienced a serious breakdown during sea trials in the Barents Sea. The vessel’s handover to India will probably be delayed with another ten months.
What local media earlier on Monday beleived was a fire onboard the warship “Admiral Chabanenko” in Severomorsk, is now said by officials to be heavy smoke from another destroyer that started its main engine.
Italian financed vessel “Rossita” should assist Russia with transport of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from run-down coastal storages. Two years after delivery, the vessel has still not transported anything. Now, she goes for repair.
After nearly 70 years British Veterans of the Arctic Convoys who risked their lives on what Churchill called ‘the worst journey in the world’ finally received proper recognition yesterday.
