UNGA Crisis Update 7- “Russian Winter is Coming”

Three nuclear-powered submarines designed to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles surfaced simultaneously in the Arctic archipelago, breaking through the surface ice, in a military exercise that asserts Russia's supremacy in the frozen north. A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows the turrets of the three vessels breaking through about a meter of ice north of the Barents Sea on the 20th of March. The submarines took part in exercise Umka ("polar bear" in the Chukchi language of Siberia) with the participation of 600 officers and researchers of the Russian Geographical Society.

Each of the submarines is believed to be capable of carrying up to 16 ballistic missiles, which carry up to six nuclear warheads. On the other hand, U.S. nuclear submarines tend to operate at great depths in the oceans and rarely travel beneath the Arctic Ice. Three other U.S. Seawolf-class submarines are designed specifically to search and destroy Russian submarines in the Arctic.

The UNGA is on edge.