“Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted operations to assure the defense of the United States and Canada. APĪ spokesperson for the US Northern Command confirmed to the paper that the two American adversaries carried out a combined naval patrol near Alaska, but did not confirm the number of ships or their exact location. “Given the context of the war in Ukraine and tensions around Taiwan, this move is highly provocative.” China and Russia conducted a joint naval operation near the coast of Alaska earlier this week. “It is a historical first,” Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a retired Navy captain, told the oulet. The fleet of ships have since left, and were tailed by four US destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft, officials confirmed to the newspaper. Tennessee couple ‘didn’t sleep and encountered bears’ while stranded in Alaska wilderness for 8 daysĬouple found alive in Alaskan wilderness had chaotic past with drugs, filmed bizarre Youtube videosĬhina and Russia conducted a joint naval operation near the coast of Alaska earlier this week in a “highly provocative” move amid the war in Ukraine that triggered a robust US military response.Įleven Russian and Chinese ships neared the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska earlier this week near the maritime boundary Russia shares with the US, but the fleets never entered US waters, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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