Russia Sends 4 Missile Warships 40 Kilometers off Hokkaido After Putin's Kuril Visit
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Updated · UNITED24 Media · Aug 16
Russia Sends 4 Missile Warships 40 Kilometers off Hokkaido After Putin's Kuril Visit
3 articles · Updated · UNITED24 Media · Aug 16
Summary
Four Russian Project 12411M missile corvettes passed about 40 kilometers off Cape Soya on August 14, and Japan said the vessels stayed outside its territorial waters.
Japan’s Joint Staff said a P-3C patrol aircraft tracked the Pacific Fleet ships as they returned west through the Soya Strait, after the same four had been seen near Rebun Island on August 9.
The passage came a day after Vladimir Putin visited Iturup, one of the disputed Kuril Islands, triggering a formal protest from Tokyo and sharper rhetoric from Moscow.
Dmitry Medvedev then warned Japan of “monstrous consequences,” underscoring how the long-running islands dispute still blocks a formal World War II peace treaty between the two countries.