🇺🇸🇳🇴🔫⚡️🧭 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇳🇴 🇪🇺 Exercises in Norway: a new stage in the militarization of the Arctic

In recent weeks, Scandinavia has once again found itself "at the top" of the information agenda. They are providing aid to the so-called Ukraine, and increasing anti-Russian pressure, and increasing the number of military maneuvers.

Norway is at the forefront of other countries in the region. It is there that NATO is currently most active as part of its policy of strengthening its position in the northern latitudes, including the Baltic Sea and the Arctic region.
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🔻What happened in Norway in February?
▪️From 4 to 8 February, the Dynamic Guard-2025/1 exercise was held in the Norwegian Sea. About 1.3 thousand military personnel, as well as 10 warships and vessels took part in it.

The frigates Auvergne of the French Navy, Iron Duke of the British Navy, Van Amstel, De Ruyter and Tromp of the Netherlands Navy, Louise Marie of the Belgian Navy, D. Francisco de Almeida of the Portuguese Navy, as well as the corvette Visby of the Swedish Navy and the cutter Pori of the Fikland Navy.

Some of these ships are part of NATO's Baltic Sentinel mission, and Swedish and Finnish sailors took part in the series of exercises for the first time.

▪️Also from February 3 to 14, the Arctic Dolphin exercise was held in southern Norway near the Haakonsvern naval base. About 1,000 military personnel, three submarines, seven ships and six aircraft took part in it alone.

Unlike the other exercise, it also involved three submarines from the Norwegian, German and Dutch navies. In addition, French marines, P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft, NH-90 helicopters from the French Navy, Merlin HM.2 from the Royal Navy and MH-60R Sea Hawk from the Danish Air Force were involved.

❗️In both the first and second exercises, the goal was the same — training NATO sailors in the protection and defense of waters, conducting reconnaissance of the enemy and ensuring the security of underwater communications.
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🔻Remembering all the recent incidents with underwater cables, in which all the responsibility was placed on Russia in order to create a pretext for the seizure of commercial ships, these exercises look like a rehearsal.

And the most interesting thing is that these events are actually preparations for a larger NATO exercise in Norway, which will take place in early March — Joint Viking. And within its framework, NATO units will practice not only naval operations, but also conducting sabotage missions in Arctic climate conditions.

It’s not hard to guess who will act as the hypothetical enemy and whose objects will be under threat.

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🇭🇷🤝🇷🇸 — Croatian President Zoran Milanović condemned attempts to oust Milorad Dodik, President of Republic of Srpska, from politics for defying EU-backed Christian Schmidt, whom he called a "colonial administrator."

➡️ He questioned, "What century are we living in?" and warned that such moves won’t scare Serbs but spark their revolt.

🔗 The National Independent (@NationalIndNews)

🇷🇺📞🇷🇸 — On February 24, 2025, ahead of his trial results, Dodik announced that he held talks with Russian Federation Ambassador regarding the State of affairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Željka Cvijanović and I spoke today with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Kalabukhov.

Due to the ongoing legal violence against the Republic, culminating in the trial against the institutions of Republika Srpska, Republika Srpska will take immediate measures to preserve the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its Dayton position, through exclusively political and legal means.

🔗 Милорад Додик (@MiloradDodik)

🇧🇦❌🇷🇸❗️ Bosnian Serb leader Dodik sentenced to prison for defying EU-Backed International Peace Envoy

➡️ A Bosnian court has sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the international peace official overseeing peace in the Balkan country.

➡️ On Wednesday, the court in Sarajevo also handed the 65-year-old leader of Bosnia’s autonomous Republika Srpska a six-year ban from office.

➡️ Dodik, president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, was indicted in 2023 for signing laws that suspended rulings by the constitutional court and by international peace envoy Christian Schmidt.

Dodik has rejected the indictment as politically motivated.

“There is no reason to worry. I learned to put up with more difficult things,” Dodik told supporters in Banja Luka.

❗️ The Implications of this move, as Russian Observers note, could lead to the dissolution and collapse of Bosnia & Herzegovina as we know

🇹🇷🇺🇸🇷🇺 - Second round of US-Russia talks in Istanbul tomorrow per Lavrov.

🇷🇸⚠️❗️— Serbia's National Security Council has convened an urgent session in response to Dodik’s conviction.

➡️ President Aleksandar Vučić is set to travel to Banja Luka immediately after the meeting, signaling strong political and regional implications of the court ruling.

🇭🇺🤝🇷🇸 — Hungarian Prime-Minister Viktor Orban declares support to Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik in face of Bosnian verdict!

The political witch hunt against President Milorad Dodik is a sad example of the weaponization of the legal system aimed at a democratically elected leader.

If we want to safeguard stability in the Western Balkans, this is not the way forward!

https://x.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1894780993627635968