The navies of Russia and China are conducting joint artillery and anti-submarine drills in the Sea of Japan, near the Russian port of Vladivostok, as part of the "Maritime Interaction-2025" exercise, Russian officials said on Sunday.

Russia and China have staged mock combat drills in the Sea of Japan on Sunday in a show of strengthening ties between the countries. Although the war games were planned in advance, they come just one day after Donald Trump moved two US nuclear submarines closer to Russia following comments from former Russian president,

The first official statement from the Kremlin about Trump’s move seemed to distance Russian President Vladimir Putin from Dmitry Medvedev’s inflammatory comments.