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Russia says to deploy new weapons on disputed Kurile islands, Russia will this year arrange some of its newest missile defence systems and drones on the Kurile islands area Moscow and Tokyo accept battling territorial claims, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday.
The altercation over the islands, accepted as the Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, has artificial relations amid the two countries back World War Two, if Soviet armament active four islands at the southern end of the chain.
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| Russia deploy new on disputed Kurile islands |
The altercation is so acerbic that Moscow and Tokyo accept still not active a academic accord treaty.
The new weapons were allotment of a drive to rearm aggressive units already deployed in the Kuriles, Shoigu said, in comments advertisement on accompaniment TV.
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"Coastal missile systems Bal and Bastion and new bearing Eleron 3 drones will be deployed there this year," he told a affair at the Defence Ministry.
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| Russia deploy new on disputed Kurile islands |
The Bastion is a adaptable defence arrangement armed with two anti-ship missiles with a ambit of up to 300 km (188 miles). It has aswell been deployed in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The Bal anti-ship missile has a agnate range.
Shoigu appear in October that Russia would body a aggressive abject on the Kurile islands.
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