The battle of the Barents Sea has proven to be a core strategic part of the ongoing large-scale war exercise Zapad-2025 (West-2025). Simulated battles are taking place from the Franz Josef Land in the Arctic to the coast of the Kola Peninsula on the southern shores of the sea that Russia shares with Norway.
The Defence Ministry on Monday published a video showing how the war games have played out on the Sredny Peninsula over the last few days. Sredny is 30 kilometers from the border and is visible on the horizon from Norway’s northernmost military watchtower in Grense Jakobselv. […]
For Russia, establishing Anti-Access/Area Denial of the Barents Sea bastion is important in a scenario where the ballistic missile submarines sailing out of the Kola Peninsula are deployed for war. This war scenario includes control of all the waters and air space east of the so-called Bear Gap, the line where the shallow Barents Sea meets the deeper Norwegian Sea, from North Cape via the Bear Island to Spitsbergen in the high Arctic. Läs artikel