The Chukchi Sea is the one that bounds the United States. It is in the north of the Bering Strait, a waterway separating Russia's Chukchi Peninsula to the west and Alaska to the east, connecting the Pacific Ocean to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.

The 4,000-mile stunt came as Vladimir Putin's forces completed its largest naval war games since the Soviet era, which were designed to show off the country's firepower

Putin staged the Ocean-2024 war games - the largest since the Cold War - in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, and the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic Seas.

Soviet test site's director Rear Admiral Andrei Sinitsyn said the nuclear testing facilities and can be used immediately if Putin gives an order

The director of the testing site at Novaya Zelmlya archipelago insisted that facilities are ready and can be used immediately 'if the order is given'

Vladimir Putin is raising the spectre of the Cold War as he threatens to resume testing at a remote Arctic facility where the Soviets detonated the most powerful nuclear bomb to ever exist.The warmongering Russian leader has been increasingly menacing in his outbursts towards the West as Ukraine seeks to persuade Britain,