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US fighter jets allegedly scrambled to intercept Russian nuclear bombers that flew over Alaskan airspace.
US and Russian warplanes came face to face in the sky on Thursday after Vladimir Putin sent up two Tu-95MS nuclear bombers over the Bering Sea, near Alaska's western coast.
Footage published by the Russian Defense Ministry shows a warplane from the Alaska Air National Guard marked with the letters AK and the number 304 on its tail fin. A Russian escort Su-30SM fighter jet is also pictured in the video.
The Russian defense minister admitted its hulking 'Bear' strategic bombers 'appeared near the coast of Alaska' on an 11 hour flight over the neutral waters Bering Sea. Moscow said 'at certain stages the missile carriers were accompanied by fighter jets of foreign countries'.
Four Kremlin military jets were detected and tracked operating near American airspace in an area where Russian aircraft activity is regularly detected, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed Thursday. NORAD added that the Russian jets 'remained in international airspace'.
The aerial drama came amid fury in Moscow over the US resuming major arms supplies to Ukraine as part of a $61billion package of war aid.
US and Russian warplanes came face to face in the sky on Thursday after Vladimir Putin sent up two Tu-95MS nuclear bombers over the Bering Sea, near Alaska's western coast
Footage published by the Russian Defense Ministry shows a warplane from the Alaska Air National Guard marked with the letters AK and the number 304 on its tail fin
Russia's Ministry of Defense confirmed on Telegram that two 'missile carriers' had flown a mission off the western coast of Alaska on Thursday.
'Two Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces' long-range aviation carried
