submarines Russians Missiles fired during maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, the Defense Ministry said Thursday amid tensions between Moscow and Tokyo Ukraine. “Pacific Fleet submarines fired Kalibr cruise missiles at notional enemy ships,” the Russian ministry said in a statement.
More than 15 ships participated in these maneuvers, including two submarines, the PetropavlovskKamchatsky and the Volkov, which “launched cruise missiles from a submerged position in the Sea of Japan and successfully reached their target,” the same sources added . .
The ministry released a video showing the rockets being launched from the water and rising into the sky. These maneuvers are creating a climate of tension between Russia and Japan, which has imposed an embargo on Russian coal in response to Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine.
🇷🇺 Pacific Fleet submarines fire Kalibr cruise missiles at dummy ships ➡ https://t.co/d8r3CiVG6Y pic.twitter.com/9tq8G5f2wd
— Ministry of Defense of Russia (@mod_russia) April 14, 2022
Japan, an ally of the United States, has complex ties with Russia, with whom it failed to sign a peace treaty after World War II due to the conflict over four small islands in the Kuril archipelago.
These islands were taken over by the Soviet Army in the last days of the war and never returned to Japan, which calls them the “Northern Territories” and considers them its own.