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Japan is concerned about the deployment of Russian S-300V4 surface surface-to-air missile systems on a disputed chain of Kuril islands in the North Pacific.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said, on Wednesday, that Japan’s government has lodged a protest after Russia’s military deployed a number of its new S-300V4 missile defense systems for combat duty on a disputed chain of islands near Japan.

As the press service of the Russian Eastern Military District previously reported, units of Russia’s latest S-300V4 air defense missile system just entered combat duty on the Kuril Islands.

“Units of the S-300V4 missile defense system entered combat duty on an air defense mission on the Kuril Islands,” the statement said…

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