Second intercept of Russian aircraft near Alaska over two days

The Alaskan Region of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected, tracked, and positively identified and intercepted four Russian aircrafts approaching the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone on February 14, NORAD says in a statement. 

The Russian aircrafts remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace.

This is the second intercept of Russian aircraft over two days. NORAD emphasizes furthermore that the Russian acitivity near the North American Air Defense Identification Zone occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat - nor provocative. 

"Since Russia resumed out of area Long Range Aviation acitivity in 2007, NORAD has seen a yearly average of approximately six to seven intercepts of Russian military aircraft in the ADIZ. These numbers have varied each year from as high as 15 to as low as zero", NORAD adds.