The caravan of two cargo ships and two icebreakers will try to get out to the East Siberian Sea without air support.

Russia’s Defense Ministry plans to form a coastal defense division in Chukotka by 2018.

The ecological unit of the Eastern Military District will continue environmental rehabilitation of the Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean this year on the territory of around 10 hectares. It is planned to collect over 1,000 tons of garbage.