Exercise Umka-21 is Russia’s most complex military drill in the high Arctic, involving fighter jets, torpedo shootings and Arctic brigade soldiers training warfare on Franz Josef Land. “As part of the Arctic expedition, three nuclear-powered submarines surfaced from under the ice inside an area with a radius of 300 meters for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy,” said Admiral Nikolay Evmenov in a direct video-call with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Evmenov is Commander of the Navy. Putin added that the surfacing of the three submarines has no equivalents neither in the history of Soviet times…
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