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The North American Aerospace Defense Command detected Russian aircraft operating in the Alaska air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over a three day period from Friday to Sunday, the command said in a statement.

At the same time, Russian Navy and People’s Army Liberation Navy ships have been drilling together under the Russian major fleet’s exercise Ocean 2024, and German Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday.

On Friday, NORAD issued a release stating that it had detected and tracked two Russian Tu-142 military aircraft operating in the Alaska ADIZ that day. “The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. This Russian activity in the Alaska ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat,” stated the release.

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