Dependence on Russia and no way out? A column It was 2018, and since then there has been optimistic talk of future terminals at all maritime conferences. At the VSM conference in 2019, we repeatedly heard that things were getting underway in Brunsbüttel. Then came the National Maritime Conference: even the German Chancellor was reading from the page...
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With its increased naval presence in the Black Sea, Russia now almost completely surrounds Ukraine, including the previously existing gap in the south. What do these increased naval movements mean? Are they related to the Ukraine crisis? To get a picture of the situation, it is worth taking a look at communications from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, which...
Areas closed for firing exercises The Russian Navy has announced exercise areas for a large part of the Black Sea and most of the Sea of Azov, effectively restricting shipping to Ukrainian commercial ports. Commercial shipping and air traffic are advised to avoid the designated areas from 13 to 19 February.
Transparency to reduce tensions in Ukraine. To ease tensions over Russia's military build-up in Ukraine, NATO and US negotiators have offered Moscow to inspect two ballistic missile defence sites to prove that the alliance has not deployed offensive missiles. (marineforum reported several times)....
.... and won The action shows how civil outrage can force governments to act. In this case, it was a Russian naval manoeuvre. One group has now shown how to do it. When Russia announced its intention to carry out manoeuvres with warships off the Irish coast, Irish fishermen organised a protest...
Amphibious group Three amphibious landing ships of the Baltic Fleet (Ropucha class, project 775) have been moving towards the Mediterranean for a week and have passed the English Channel. Two more Ropuchas and a large landing ship of the Ivan Gren class (Project 11711) of the Northern Fleet have left their bases and were delayed in reaching the North Sea due to weather conditions...
Durch die Ostsee nach Murmansk Was für ein Brocken? Der brandneue Atom-Eisbrecher RFS Sibir befindet sich derzeit auf Ablieferungsfahrt aus der Ostsee in Richtung Murmansk. Er ist Teil des russischen strategischen Gesamt-Konzeptes in der Arktis. Die Sibir ist am 22. September 2017 vom Stapel gelaufen. Inzwischen wurde das Schiff an...
marineforum has been following developments in the Arctic and the North Atlantic for some time now. Because the ice is melting - faster than some would like - too slowly for others. The landscape is changing faster than in the rest of the world, and with it the conditions. There are...
Although the primary goal of Norwegian policy is to keep the Arctic free of military tensions and maintain good neighbourly relations with Russia, the country has initiated a change of course in recent years, which culminated in the defence agreement with the USA in April. Parliament still has to approve the agreement. Norway...
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