Kunashir Island within the KurilesEuropa Press
The Kuril Islands are a small archipelago that’s in historic dispute between Japan and Russia and is positioned between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed on Monday the deployment of a coastal missile system in Paramushir, within the Kuril Islands. “The coastal missiles of the Pacific Fleet will preserve 24-hour surveillance to regulate the adjoining water and the strait areas,” the Defense workplace reported, as reported by the Russian company Tass.
Thus, the ministerial portfolio has defined that an autonomous navy camp has been put in on the island, which incorporates situations for the service, lodging, recreation and meals of the personnel all year long. “For the operation and upkeep of the gear, the gear of the technical posts has been put in, the storage services for gear and materials sources have been deployed and the accesses to the exit posts have been enabled,” continues the Ministry.
A 12 months in the past, on December 2, 2021, the Pacific Fleet indicated it had deployed missiles — the identical typology as on this event — on the neighboring island of Matua. Earlier, the Russian Army famous the creation of an airfield on the island.
The Kuril Islands are a small archipelago that’s traditionally disputed between Japan and Russia and is positioned between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka. The archipelago is made up of a bunch of islands –Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai– inhabited by only a handful of Japanese residents who have been occupied by Soviet troops in World War II.