Thomas Nilsen
@thomasnilsen.bsky.social
Editor of the Barents Observer.
Freedom to write - Freedom to publish!
#Arctic #Environment #Security #Russia #Nuclear #FSB #OSINT #InfoOps
Freedom to write - Freedom to publish!
#Arctic #Environment #Security #Russia #Nuclear #FSB #OSINT #InfoOps
🇳🇴 has some strange rules for allied flights. 🇺🇸 P-8s with take-off from Evenes (northern Norway) can track 🇷🇺 subs in Norwegian Sea, but not in international waters north of the Varanger fjord. So, this 🇺🇸 ✈️ tonight comes all the way from 🇮🇸 Keflavik.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🇳🇴 has some strange rules for allied flights. 🇺🇸 P-8s with take-off from Evenes (northern Norway) can track 🇷🇺 subs in Norwegian Sea, but not in international waters north of the Varanger fjord. So, this 🇺🇸 ✈️ tonight comes all the way from 🇮🇸 Keflavik.
Nations remain far from meeting the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to well-below 2°C, according to the UN Emissions Gap Report 2025. Meanwhile, winter is coming here up North.
www.unep.org/resources/em... #ClimateCrisis
www.unep.org/resources/em... #ClimateCrisis
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Nations remain far from meeting the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to well-below 2°C, according to the UN Emissions Gap Report 2025. Meanwhile, winter is coming here up North.
www.unep.org/resources/em... #ClimateCrisis
www.unep.org/resources/em... #ClimateCrisis
A grim example of how 🇷🇺 deliberately blurs out the distance between WWII and today's bestial war. Unveiled in Severomorsk on Tuesday, the monument to warriors fighting in 🇺🇦 partly include WWII uniforms, a Soviet flag and looks similar to those commemorating the Red Army's victory and sacrifice.
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A grim example of how 🇷🇺 deliberately blurs out the distance between WWII and today's bestial war. Unveiled in Severomorsk on Tuesday, the monument to warriors fighting in 🇺🇦 partly include WWII uniforms, a Soviet flag and looks similar to those commemorating the Red Army's victory and sacrifice.
🇷🇺 Generalkonsulat i Kirkenes må stenges, argumenterer jeg og @jettefc.bsky.social i #Dax18. 48:00 ut i sendingen. Spennende at @eivindvp.bsky.social mot slutten av debatten ikke utelukker at 🇷🇺 må pakke ned og stenge. Konsulatet er en svingdør for FSB til 🇧🇻 og driver med provokasjon, ikke diplomati.
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🇷🇺 Generalkonsulat i Kirkenes må stenges, argumenterer jeg og @jettefc.bsky.social i #Dax18. 48:00 ut i sendingen. Spennende at @eivindvp.bsky.social mot slutten av debatten ikke utelukker at 🇷🇺 må pakke ned og stenge. Konsulatet er en svingdør for FSB til 🇧🇻 og driver med provokasjon, ikke diplomati.
Moscow’s man in 🇳🇴 Kirkenes met with 🇺🇦 flag when laying wreath at war monument. October 25 marks 81st anniversary of liberation in Norway’s northeast border region.
October 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Moscow’s man in 🇳🇴 Kirkenes met with 🇺🇦 flag when laying wreath at war monument. October 25 marks 81st anniversary of liberation in Norway’s northeast border region.
☢️ This day in history, October 24th 1990: the USSR detonated its last underground nuclear bomb at Novaya Zemlya. My photo from 35 years ago, taken towards the Matochkin Strait from the Barents Sea, just outside 12 nm. ⚛️
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
☢️ This day in history, October 24th 1990: the USSR detonated its last underground nuclear bomb at Novaya Zemlya. My photo from 35 years ago, taken towards the Matochkin Strait from the Barents Sea, just outside 12 nm. ⚛️
Russian evolution: UAZ-450 (1955) vs. UAZ-452 (2025).
www.uaz.ru/en/cars/clas...
www.uaz.ru/en/cars/clas...
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Russian evolution: UAZ-450 (1955) vs. UAZ-452 (2025).
www.uaz.ru/en/cars/clas...
www.uaz.ru/en/cars/clas...
Agree. The Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to the people of Ukraine.
October 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Agree. The Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to the people of Ukraine.
Today marks the 10th anniversary since we restarted the Barents Observer as an independent journalist-owned newspaper after the repressive 🪆 Barents Secretariat tried to stop our basic journalist rights. October 7th is also dictator Putin’s birthday. Our fight for press freedom 🇳🇴🇷🇺 will continue 🥳🎉✍️🧑💻
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Today marks the 10th anniversary since we restarted the Barents Observer as an independent journalist-owned newspaper after the repressive 🪆 Barents Secretariat tried to stop our basic journalist rights. October 7th is also dictator Putin’s birthday. Our fight for press freedom 🇳🇴🇷🇺 will continue 🥳🎉✍️🧑💻
Det er i dag 10 år siden vi restartet Barents Observer som en journalist-eid uavhengig avis etter at de repressive eierne av 🪆#Barentssekretariatet nektet oss å følge #Redaktørplakaten. 7. oktober er også diktator Putin sin bursdag. Kampen for pressefrihet i det 🇳🇴🇷🇺 grenselandet fortsetter 🥳✍️🧑💻
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Det er i dag 10 år siden vi restartet Barents Observer som en journalist-eid uavhengig avis etter at de repressive eierne av 🪆#Barentssekretariatet nektet oss å følge #Redaktørplakaten. 7. oktober er også diktator Putin sin bursdag. Kampen for pressefrihet i det 🇳🇴🇷🇺 grenselandet fortsetter 🥳✍️🧑💻
🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon on mission i the 🇳🇴🇷🇺 maritime border areas of the Barents Sea. Two of three Yasen subs are missing from base at Nerpitcha (Zapadnaya Litsa).
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon on mission i the 🇳🇴🇷🇺 maritime border areas of the Barents Sea. Two of three Yasen subs are missing from base at Nerpitcha (Zapadnaya Litsa).
Pile foundations are set in the ground. 20x37 meter (740m2). Will be some kind of large building, or related facility.
October 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Pile foundations are set in the ground. 20x37 meter (740m2). Will be some kind of large building, or related facility.
A tunnel to watch: Located about 5 km south of Severny at the Central Test Site on Novaya Zemlya. Not a normal ☢️ detonation entrance. Some kind of building construction work started this summer next to the tunnels in the lower right corner.
October 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A tunnel to watch: Located about 5 km south of Severny at the Central Test Site on Novaya Zemlya. Not a normal ☢️ detonation entrance. Some kind of building construction work started this summer next to the tunnels in the lower right corner.
Saw this when landing at Copenhagen airport. Said to be a XENTA-radar that can discover drones in a distance of up to 30 km.
September 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Saw this when landing at Copenhagen airport. Said to be a XENTA-radar that can discover drones in a distance of up to 30 km.
The Pentagon demands journalists to sign a pledge not to obtain or report any information - even if unclassified - unless it has been expressly authorized by the government.
To be clear, as a reporter who is also covering different aspects of 🇺🇸 military, I will never sign such restrictions.
To be clear, as a reporter who is also covering different aspects of 🇺🇸 military, I will never sign such restrictions.
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Pentagon demands journalists to sign a pledge not to obtain or report any information - even if unclassified - unless it has been expressly authorized by the government.
To be clear, as a reporter who is also covering different aspects of 🇺🇸 military, I will never sign such restrictions.
To be clear, as a reporter who is also covering different aspects of 🇺🇸 military, I will never sign such restrictions.
NATO keeps eyes on the Barents Sea leg of 🇷🇺🇧🇾#Zapad2025 excerise. Right now one AWACS is north of 🇳🇴 Finnmark and a 🇸🇪 Gulfstream flies 🇫🇮 Lapland. 🇷🇺 MiG-31 conducted mock strikes with Kinzhal ballistic missile earlier this weekend.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/two...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/two...
September 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
NATO keeps eyes on the Barents Sea leg of 🇷🇺🇧🇾#Zapad2025 excerise. Right now one AWACS is north of 🇳🇴 Finnmark and a 🇸🇪 Gulfstream flies 🇫🇮 Lapland. 🇷🇺 MiG-31 conducted mock strikes with Kinzhal ballistic missile earlier this weekend.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/two...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/two...
One of NATO's AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System), from north of 🇧🇻 Finnmark region, keeps control of Russia's Barents Sea activities as 🇷🇺🇧🇾 #Zapad2025 kicked off today.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/nav...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/nav...
September 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of NATO's AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System), from north of 🇧🇻 Finnmark region, keeps control of Russia's Barents Sea activities as 🇷🇺🇧🇾 #Zapad2025 kicked off today.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/nav...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/nav...
🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon from 🇮🇸 Keflavik on mission outside 🇷🇺 Kola bases Sunday evening. Refuelled outside 🇳🇴 before flying east. Big 🇺🇸🇳🇴 military operation in #BarentsSea every day for 2 weeks now. Let’s see what next week brings.
September 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon from 🇮🇸 Keflavik on mission outside 🇷🇺 Kola bases Sunday evening. Refuelled outside 🇳🇴 before flying east. Big 🇺🇸🇳🇴 military operation in #BarentsSea every day for 2 weeks now. Let’s see what next week brings.
A 🇺🇸 anti-submarine MH-60R Seahawk searching in the area just north of Tanafjorden. At 29° East, but likely just outside Norwegian airspace. The other aircraft is a 🇳🇴 P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol- and sub hunter. #BarentsSea #NATO
September 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A 🇺🇸 anti-submarine MH-60R Seahawk searching in the area just north of Tanafjorden. At 29° East, but likely just outside Norwegian airspace. The other aircraft is a 🇳🇴 P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol- and sub hunter. #BarentsSea #NATO
Når nazisten Lysglimt oppfordrer folk til å stemme på grupperingen FOR, som er startet av utbrytere fra Rødt, er hesteskoteorien i norsk politikk bekreftet.
September 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Når nazisten Lysglimt oppfordrer folk til å stemme på grupperingen FOR, som er startet av utbrytere fra Rødt, er hesteskoteorien i norsk politikk bekreftet.
First time a Global Hawk has been flying over Finnmark in northernmost Norway.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/glo... #AirForce #NATO
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/glo... #AirForce #NATO
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
First time a Global Hawk has been flying over Finnmark in northernmost Norway.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/glo... #AirForce #NATO
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/glo... #AirForce #NATO
🇺🇸 WC-135R (☢️-sniffer) on return towards 🇳🇴 airspace after Barents Sea mission looking for 🇷🇺 stuff.
September 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇺🇸 WC-135R (☢️-sniffer) on return towards 🇳🇴 airspace after Barents Sea mission looking for 🇷🇺 stuff.
.. and this one is a pretty good indicator on where the Ford carrier group is sailing today.
September 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
.. and this one is a pretty good indicator on where the Ford carrier group is sailing today.
… and today there is a KC-135 Stratotanker, likely fuelling the WC-135R Constant Phoneix (☢️-sniffer) that is in the area. This one, interesting, took off from Bodø 🇳🇴.
September 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
… and today there is a KC-135 Stratotanker, likely fuelling the WC-135R Constant Phoneix (☢️-sniffer) that is in the area. This one, interesting, took off from Bodø 🇳🇴.
Children started the new school year on September 1, known as 'День знаний' (Day of Knowledge). Like in recent years, the knowledge focus is devoted to war planning.
September 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Children started the new school year on September 1, known as 'День знаний' (Day of Knowledge). Like in recent years, the knowledge focus is devoted to war planning.