Earlier this month, three Russian warships passed near one of the U.S. allies after conducting joint operations with the Chinese navy in disputed waters in the region.
Japan’s Joint Staff Office, under the Ministry of Defense, reported the Russian corvette’s movements on Monday. Soversheny, Gromkeyand LezkeyOn July 16, the Russian Pacific Fleet Soversheny It completed a 15-day, 4,800-nautical-mile patrol with the Chinese navy from the North Pacific to the South China Sea.
The Chinese and Russian navies concluded their “Joint Maritime Exercise 2024” on July 17, according to Chinese state media. The exercise, which focused on joint responses to maritime security threats, took place in waters near China’s southern province of Guangdong on the South China Sea. The Russian forces that participated were Gromkey And that Lezkey.
The three Russian ships were first spotted The Japanese navy conducted Chinese military drills on Friday and Saturday in the Yonaguni Strait, a waterway less than 70 miles wide that separates Taiwan’s east coast from Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island. On Monday, Taiwan’s military launched a large-scale drill to combat Chinese military exercises on the self-ruled island. Intrusion.
Japan Joint Staff Office
The Russian surface fleet sailed north through the East China Sea, at one point passing the Senkaku Islands, 37 nautical miles away. The islands are under Japanese control but claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands and by Taiwan as the Diaoyutai.
The warship, under the command of the Pacific Fleet, arrived Sunday in the Tsushima Strait, which lies between Japan to the east and South Korea to the west. The warship continued north through the Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in North and South Korea. The Pacific Fleet has a naval base in the Russian city of Vladivostok.
The Joint Staff Office said Japan had dispatched ships and aircraft to monitor the Russian naval formations.
Newsweek The Russian Defense Ministry was contacted by email seeking comment.
Russia’s Pacific Fleet said on Monday that Russian warships conducted anti-submarine warfare drills in the Sea of Japan, prompting the use of RBU-6000 rocket launchers and torpedoes to destroy enemy submarines that refused to surface.
Another group of ships in the Russian Pacific Fleet is the cruiser Varyag Frigate Marshal ShaposhnikovOn July 17, the Pacific Fleet announced that it had concluded its deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and had passed through Egypt’s Suez Canal and entered the Red Sea.
The Russian warship began its long-distance voyage in January. Its arrival in the Red Sea comes after Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked two ships, including a Russian oil tanker, on July 15, and reports suggested Russia was considering providing the rebels with anti-ship missiles.
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