An ‘Acute Threat’ Is Posed by Russia in Its Operations in the Arctic

It completes today its largest exercises since the Soviet Union and is racing to expand its fleet of ice-breakers.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
Russian servicemen on the destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov during the Ocean-2024 exercises in the Arctic Ocean, September 12, 2024. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

Russia completes today its largest military exercises since the fall of the Soviet Union. With naval vessels operating in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Baltic, Caspian, and Mediterranean, President Putin seeks through his Ocean-24 exercise to divert attention from his stalled war in Ukraine and to remind Communist China and the world that Russia is still  a maritime power.

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