The Japanese claimed to have scrambled jet planes on 24th October to spy on the Russian warplanes, including strategic bombers, which could carry nuclear arms, that had been flying along the periphery of Japanese airspace along its coast.
The Defence Ministry of Russia, citing state-owned newspaper RIA news agency, confirmed that its Tu-95 bombers had been escorted by jets of another nation when it was on what it termed a routine patrol flight over neutral waters.
The event occurred several hours before the new Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, pledged in her inaugural address to parliament that she was going to speed up a defence buildup. Takiichi claimed that the military intervention of Russia, China, and North Korea was a cause of real concern.
The Ministry of Defence in Japan issued a map that indicated the route taken by the Russian airplanes along the west coast of Japan into the Sea of Japan. It reported that the two Tu-95 bombers were escorted by two Su-35 fighters and had initially headed to Sado Island in Japan and then headed north.
In an X post, the Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi wrote, “Russia was carrying out military operations daily around our country and was invading Ukraine – the reality.”
In an X post, Takiichi also boasted of a “special global partnership” of Japan with Ukraine, where the author gave glorifying words to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and the citizens of Ukraine, who she says were brave enough to “resist the aggression day by day.”
Recent weeks have seen the European countries accuse Russia of frequent incursions using drones and jets, the latest of which occurred on Thursday, when the NATO-member state of Lithuania reported that Russian fighters had briefly flown into its airspace. Moscow rejected the claim that its aircraft in the exercise flights flew into Lithuanian airspace.
