Russian navy holds war games near Alaska involving ships and aircraft

The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times.
 

Russia's navy chief, Adm Nikolai Yevmenov, said that more than 50 warships and about 40 aircraft were taking part in the exercise in the Bering Sea, which involved multiple practice missile launches.
 

“We are holding such massive drills there for the first time ever,” Yevmenov said in a statement released by the Russian Defense Ministry.
 

It wasn't immediately clear when the exercises began or if they had finished.
 

Yevmenov emphasized that