Russia begins military drills on Japan-claimed islands

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Russia begins military drills on Japan-claimed islands​

March. 26 2022

Russia has started military drills in an area that includes islands it controls but Japan claims.

Some observers say Moscow is attempting to send a warning to Japan, which imposed sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine.

The Russian defense ministry said on Friday that more than 3,000 soldiers, including artillery units, are taking part on the assumption of an enemy landing.

It says they used state-of-the-art drones for reconnaissance activities and practiced procedures for launching anti-tank missiles.

The Japanese government calls the islands the Northern Territories. It maintains they are an inherent part of Japan's territory. The government says the islands were illegally occupied after World War Two.

The drills are the first since the Russian foreign ministry announced on Monday that it is suspending talks on a peace treaty with Japan. The two sides have not signed one since the war because of the territorial dispute.

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Russia has started military drills in an area that includes islands it controls but Japan claims.

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Russia begins large-scale military drill on disputed islands off Japan​

• KYODO, STAFF REPORT
• March. 26 2022

The Russian military has started a military exercise involving more than 3,000 troops on a chain of islands — including those disputed with Japan — Russian news agency Interfax reported.

It is the first drill on the disputed islands off Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido since Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced earlier this week it will suspend territorial talks with Japan. Russia is withdrawing from the talks over Tokyo’s sanctions against Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.

Some hundreds of military vehicles are participating in the drill under a scenario of launching a counterattack against enemy forces attempting to land, the report said Friday.

Russia is seen as building up its forces on the islands, called the Northern Territories by Japan and the Southern Kurils by Russia. The territorial dispute has prevented the two countries from concluding a postwar peace treaty.

Japan claims the Soviet Union illegally seized the four islands — Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets — soon after Japan’s surrender in World War II in August 1945, while Moscow argues the move was legitimate.

Last week, the Defense Ministry said that it had spotted four large Russian amphibious warfare ships sailing through a strait in northeastern Japan as they traveled west, possibly toward Europe to aid in the war in Ukraine.

Days before that, Japan protested after six Russian Navy vessels passed through the Soya Strait between Cape Soya in Hokkaido and the Russian island of Sakhalin.

The Japanese government conveyed to Moscow that it is closely monitoring the Russian military’s growing activities in areas around Japan amid the Ukraine crisis, while expressing grave concern over the moves.

That incident came after 10 Russian warships passed through the Tsugaru Strait between Hokkaido and Japan’s Honshu main island last week. On Friday, Matsuno said Japan had also lodged a protest with Moscow after the Russian Defense Ministry said it had conducted a missile drill on the Moscow-held, Tokyo-claimed islands off Hokkaido on March 11.

Russia begins large-scale military drill on disputed islands off Japan

The military exercise is the first on the disputed isles off Hokkaido since Moscow said it will suspend territorial talks with Japan.

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[RogerRanger]

Interesting, this is part of the reason why the Russians are holding back in Ukraine, increase NATO or Japan attack them, they can react to meet the threat. Japan is a huge threat to Russia, China simply isn't.

 

[xizhimen]

Interesting, this is part of the reason why the Russians are holding back in Ukraine, increase NATO or Japan attack them, they can react to meet the threat. Japan is a huge threat to Russia, China simply isn't.

It's almost like a set principle for Russians to beat Japan and secure its eastern borders before acting to the west.

 

[Agha Sher]

Japan would make mincemeat out of these incompetent ruskies in two days.

 

[McCool]

Japan would make mincemeat out of these incompetent ruskies in two days.

The Kurils would be easier for the Japanese, they could effectively blockade the air and seas around those islands and starved the Rus garrisons into surrender.

Japan has a clear advantage in both air and naval domains. It's not even a competition

 

[xizhimen]

Japan would make mincemeat out of these incompetent ruskies in two days.

Lol, now these Russians are drilling in Japanese claimed lands, when would Japan start to mincemeat these Russians?

 

[xizhimen]

The Kurils would be easier for the Japanese, they could effectively blockade the air and seas around those islands and starved the Rus garrisons into surrender.

Japan has a clear advantage in both air and naval domains. It's not even a competition

When would they do it? why Japanese never listen to their cheerleaders suggestions?

 

[McCool]

When would they do it? why Japanese never listen to their cheerleaders suggestions?

When Russia fires the first shot. Which they would not

 

[xizhimen]

When Russia fires the first shot. Which they would not

They are fire millions of shots on Japanese islands right now

 

[McCool]

They are fire millions of shots on Japanese islands right now

On a disputed territory with no Japanese casualties. At best it only annoys the Japanese.

I wonder how's that Ukraine operation going

 

[xizhimen]

On a disputed territory with no Japanese casualties. At best it only annoys the Japanese.

I wonder how's that Ukraine operation going

So they are not Japanese lands, OK. Good enough. I agree.

 

[Manomed]

They are fire millions of shots on Japanese islands right now

most Intelligent russian shill Chinese