Japan protested Russia through military exercises in the Kuril Islands

The Government of Japan protested Russia through conducting multinational military exercises, in which China, in particular, in the disputed Kuril islands. About it reports The Washington Post. The Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Chirokadz Matsuno criticized Russia for holding exercises on two of the four disputed islands of the Kuril ridge, which Japan calls its northern territories.

Video of the Day, according to the Government Representative, the Ministry of Defense of Japan noticed six Russian and Chinese warships on Saturday, which fired at the Japanese Sea about 190 kilometers west of Cape Kamui on Hokkaido Island. After firing, three Russian frigates, as well as Chinese destroyers with controlled missiles, frigate and ship supply ship crossed the soybean duct between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

"Japan will continue to monitor the movement of these ships and take all possible measures to carry out preventive and observation actions in the waters surrounding Japan," Hirakadz Matsuno said. On September 1, joint strategic exercises of East-2022 began in Russia. Tokyo states that the Soviet Union illegally captured the northern territories, which include the islands, including ethorophu, Shikotan and Kunashir, shortly after Japan's surrender in the Second World War in August 1945.