The U.S. military said it intercepted four Russian war planes near Alaska on Monday. 

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it detected four Russian aircraft including TU-95 BEAR-H bombers and SU-35 fighter aircraft entering and operating within the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), according to a Tuesday statement from the command.  

NORAD officials said they had anticipated the Russian activity and were able to quickly scramble two F-16 fighters to intercept the Kremlin aircraft in the ADIZ, which covers the international airspace outside of the U.S. and Canada near the far northern state. 

The command noted that the incident is in no way related to recently shot down objects over the United States and Canada this past month.