Russia is conducting military exercises on disputed islands claimed by Tokyo, Japanese media reported, a few days after Moscow cut off peace talks with Japan over sanctions imposed on it. Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This comes after the announcement of the Eastern Military District of Russia that it is conducting military exercises in the Kuril Islands with more than 3,000 soldiers and hundreds of military equipment units, the Russian news agency Interfax reported on Friday.
He did not say where the island chain, which connects Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, was located.
However, the Japanese media reported that they were in territory occupied by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II and claiming Tokyo.
The territorial dispute over the four islands – which Russia says are part of the Kuril Chain, which Japan calls its northern territories – has prevented Tokyo and Moscow from reaching a peace treaty that formally ends hostilities.
Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from lengthy talks on the treaty and froze joint island-related economic projects in retaliation for Japan’s involvement in Western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion.
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