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USNI News Search for: Home » Foreign Forces » China » Panel Warns of Economic and Military Impacts from Russia’s Plans for Arctic Panel Warns of Economic and Military Impacts from Russia’s Plans for Arctic May 11, 2021 1:10 PM Paratroopers with 2nd battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, “Spartan Brigade,” conduct high-angle fires with their M777 155mm Howitzer during training at Yukon training area, Alaska, May 6, 2021. US Army Photo Top security experts recently warned that Russia’s plan to remain the sole Arctic superpower is “worrisome and troublesome” and argued that ambition has economic and military implications far into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ....
As Blinken heads to Ukraine, Zelensky undercuts Western support with surprise sacking of energy executive Jamie McIntyre BLINKEN’S UKRAINE MISSION: Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his meetings with G-7 foreign ministers in London today and heads to Ukraine, where tomorrow he meets with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Blinken’s primary mission is to show solid support for Zelenesky’s government in the face of Russia’s recent military buildup along the country’s eastern border and the implicit threat of aggression. But as Zelensky has lobbied for faster admission to the NATO alliance, his government last week fired ....
‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.” ....