The Russian army has begun training the Pacific Fleet to demonstrate its naval power and please Beijing on the eve of a visit to Moscow by Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu, which will take place from April 16 to 18. This opinion was expressed by analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War ISW.
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On April 14, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Pacific Fleet of the Eastern Military District had been brought to the highest degree of combat readiness.
The Pacific Fleet readiness check is likely intended to send a signal to China that Russia supports Chinese security goals in the Pacific and that Russia remains an equal military partner that can act as a Pacific state despite the degradation of Russian military power in Ukraine. in the ISW analysts report.
The institute also admits that the Kremlin intends to use the Pacific Fleet readiness test to try to curb further Japanese support for Ukraine ahead of the May 19-21 G7 meeting.
During the exercises, the Russian army will learn to repel the landing on the southern Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. Russia also recently deployed a battery of Bastion coastal defense missile systems on Paramushir Island in the northern part of the occupied Japanese Kuril Islands.
Source: Racurs
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