WAS IT PUTIN? Mystery of severed Shetland undersea cables as Russian ‘research’ ship sails close to Brit islands after comms blackout
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The Sun ^
| 10.22.2022 | Paul Sims, Adrian Zorzut
THE mystery over severed undersea power cables off Shetland deepened tonight after it emerged a Russian 'research ship' was clocked in the area. Engineers
battled to restore internet and phone communications after islanders were completely cut off from the mainland on Thursday. New data now shows the research ship Akademik Boris Petrov travelled through the Shetland-Orkney Gap hours later. The Dutch warship HNLMS Tromp later moved to a position North East of the Isle of Lewis to intercept and escort it away from UK waters. Akademik Boris Petrov has now carried on its journey to Brazil. The ship originally left...
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Japan slams Russia move to end disputed Kuril Islands peace talks over sanctions
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South China Morning Post ^
| March 22, 2022 | Reuters
Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Tokyo and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of sanctions imposed by the Kishida administration over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Moscow and Tokyo have still not formally ended World War II hostilities because of
the stand-off over islands just off Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories. The islands were seized by the Soviet Union at the end of second world war. Japan has imposed sanctions on 76 individuals, seven banks...
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Tokyo exploits global anti-Russia sentiment to announce Kremlin-controlled Kuril Islands belong to Japan
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City AM ^
| 3.9.2022 | Michiel Willems
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, said that southern Kuril Islands are a sovereign part of his country, and not part of Russia, which has controlled the group of islands since 1945. Speaking
in the Diet earlier this week, Kishida told lawmakers the Kuril Islands are “original territories of Japan”. The islands have been a point of controversy between Japan and the Russia for decades. Moscow took control of the islands after World War II in 1945. In recent years, the Japanese government had refrained from referring to the islands as its “original territories” in order to avoid upsetting the Russian...
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Japans asks Russia to stop militarization of disputed islands
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Moscow Times ^
| Aug 1, 2018 | Reuters
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said on Tuesday that Tokyo had asked Russia to reduce its military activity on a disputed island chain in the Pacific after Moscow beefed up its forces there in response to what it sees as a potential threat. The
territorial dispute over the islands, known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, is so acrimonious that Moscow and Tokyo have not yet signed a peace treaty to mark the end of World War II. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the deployment of Russian warplanes on one of the disputed islands...
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Is Russia Arming Argentina to Enable a Grab of Falkland Islands?
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https :// www . thetrumpet . com / article / 12512 . 19 . 0 . 0 / britain / russia - arming - argentina - to - enable - grab - of - falkland - islands ^
| 26 March 2015
Russia is preparing to lease 12 long-range, supersonic bomber jets to Argentina, a move that some in Britain fear is designed to ready Argentina to take the Falkland Islands. Argentina has long argued that the Falklands—which it calls the Malvinas—are Argentine territory and should be controlled by Buenos Aires instead of London.
The dispute escalated into war in 1982 when Argentina invaded the islands, attempting to establish sovereignty over them. The bloody 74-day conflict ended with British forces overwhelming the Argentinians and reestablishing British control of the islands. But British defense cuts in recent years leave the Falklands more vulnerable...
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