Soldiers machine-gun connection army corps of the Eastern military district (TSB) of the Ministry of defense of Russia is carried out on the Kuril Islands of exercises involving more than 1 million people involved aircraft. This was reported on the agency's website on Friday, February 26.
The exercises are led by the acting commander of the Army corps of the VVO, Hero of Russia, Major General Vladimir Belyavsky.
"The exercise involved more than 1,000 personnel and involved about 300 units of military and special equipment, including strength and resources of the Pacific fleet, helicopters and aircraft of the army air force and air defense TSB" — noted in the Ministry of defense.
Modern systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are involved in conducting reconnaissance and correcting artillery fire.
At the first stage of the tactical exercise on anti-amphibious defense, the units were raised on a training alert. On the regular equipment, they made a march to the Hot Springs and Lagunnoye landfills.
During the exercises, commanders at all levels must work management units in the fight against illegal armed groups, the organization of the defense when the enemy is affected by UAV, and the application of countermeasures.
Earlier, on February 4, the Japanese Foreign Ministry protested over Russia's exercises in the southern part of the Kuril Islands.
The day before, Moscow notified Tokyo that from February 5 to 12, the Russian military will conduct firing maneuvers on the southern coast of the island of Kunashir.
A few days later, it became known that readers of the Japanese media criticized the country's diplomats who protested over the conduct of exercises of the Russian Armed Forces on Kunashir. Some of them accuse the Japanese authorities of a "cowardly policy", because of which the state cannot resolve territorial disputes not only with Russia, but also with China over the Senkaku Islands and South Korea over Takeshima Island.
As a result of the Second World War, Russia and Japan did not sign a peace treaty because of Tokyo's claims to the islands of Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and a number of territories of the Little Kuril Ridge. Japan continues to consider them its northern territories, although at the end of the war they passed to the Soviet Union.
