Russian And Chinese Bombers Patrol Near Alaska In Joint Military Exercise

The patrol was part of "a plan of military cooperation for 2024 and not directed against third countries," Moscow said.

Russian and Chinese bomber jets carried out a joint patrol over far eastern Russia and the Bering Sea near Alaska, Russia's defence ministry said Thursday.

It said "Russian space forces' Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers and the Chinese air force's Xian H-6 strategic bombers carried out an aerial patrol over the Chukchi and Bering Seas and the north Pacific Ocean".

The statement came after the joint US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said American and Canadian warplanes had intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers in international airspace near Alaska on Wednesday.