Indigenous people and experts say Moscow’s military push and increased shipping and mining will destroy Arctic environment About this content | John Last The Barents Sea port of Severomorsk is the base of the Russian navy’s Northern Fleet and, since 2014 – when Russia first invaded eastern Ukraine – it has become the main administrative hub for all of Russia’s Arctic military activities. As the war in … Continue reading ‘Nature is being destroyed’: Russia’s arms buildup in Barents Sea creating toxic legacy