WASHINGTON, United States — US fighter jets intercepted two long-range Russian “Bear” bombers in international airspace off western Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Saturday. “At no time did the Russian bombers enter North American sovereign airspace,” Hennessy said in a statement to AFP. ADVERTISEMENTHe added that the Alaska-based US jets monitored the Russians until the bombers left an area known as the Air Defense Identification Zone along the Aleutians, heading west. That zone extends about 200 miles (322 kilometers) from the coastline, mostly in international airspace. ‘Unsafe’ interceptionTensions between Russia and the United States and its NATO allies are running at levels not seen since the Cold War.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 12, 2018 23:48 UTC