More Military Drills in the Russian Arctic . As reported by Reuters on September 16, Russia conducted a military drill in the Chukchi Sea, an area of the Arctic Ocean separating Russia and Alaska, as part of the annual Russian Arctic military exercise known as Umka (meaning polar bear). The Umka-2022 drills mainly involved two nuclear-powered submarines, the Omsk and the Novosibirsk . Russia’s Bastion coastal missile system also took part in the drill, firing missiles from the...