Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About the Arctic & Baltic Fronts

Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About the Arctic & Baltic Fronts

Even with a settlement in Ukraine and geopolitical thawing in the Arctic, the UK, Baltics and other refusniks can still cause trouble.

Russia highlights Arctic as key strategic priority

Assistant to the President of Russia and Chairman of the Marine Board, Nikolai Patrushev, emphasized on Wednesday the growing strategic importance of the Arctic amid global tensions. Speaking at the i...

Putin Senior Advisor Patrushev Shares Insights on Arctic & Baltic Fronts

Putin Senior Advisor Patrushev Shares Insights on Arctic & Baltic Fronts Keen analysts will now be able to see just how closely connected the Arctic and Baltic fronts are to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.  [...] The post Putin Senior Advisor Patrushev Shares Insights on Arctic & Baltic Fronts first appeared on The Liberty Beacon.

Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About The Arctic & Baltic Fronts

By Andrew Korybko | March 23, 2025 Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who ran the FSB for nearly a decade (1999-2008) before chairing the Security Council for over 15 years till recently (2008-2024), shared some updates about the Baltic and Arctic fronts of the New Cold War in a recent interview with Russia’s National Defense magazine. He began by blaming the Brits for orchestrating Baltic tensions in order to disrupt the incipient Russian-U…