Russia resumes Arctic bomber flights, submarine patrols near North America: Norad

Russia has started sending long-range bombers back over the Arctic toward North American airspace following a short-lived pause during the early months of its war in Ukraine, according to a senior Canadian military official.

Alain Pelletier, the deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command.

The bombers did not enter North American airspace before leaving.

This comes as Russia and China, in particular, have started flexing their muscles in the Arctic and developing new weapons that can more easily strike North America, including cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons that fly extremely fast.

“During the gap period, we would be relying probably a little bit more heavily than we would like on the deterrence by punishment until we kind of reinforce those North American defences to bolster the defence deterrence by denial,” he said