(Beijing/Seoul Comprehensive News) China and Russia conducted joint air strategic cruise on Tuesday (June 6) in Japan (June 6). South Korea said that fighters have been deployed to deal with Sino -Russian fighters near the aim.
South Korea's United Staff Headquarters (South Korea) said that the four Chinese military aircraft and four Russian military aircraft entered the air defense identification zone in southern and eastern South Korea at around the 6th lunch time, and South Korea urgently mobilized fighters to respond.
According to the Yonhap News Agency, after the China -Russian military aircraft entered the air defense identification zone, the South Korean military warned that the Chinese military aircraft answered the normal exercise through the military direct -through hotline, and the Russian army did not have a special response.The air defense identification zone does not equal airspace. It is an area that countries require foreign aircraft to take special measures to identify their identity.
The Ministry of National Defense said in a statement that Beijing and Moscow "According to the annual cooperation plan of the Chinese and Russian armies, on June 6, the two sides implemented the sixth joint air strategic cruise in the Japanese sea and the East China Sea related airspace.
China has not provided more details of the exercise in the statement.However, the Russian Ministry of Defense on Monday (5th) on Monday (5th), Telegram, the Russian Pacific Fleet began to conduct fighting exercises in the Sea of Japan and the Ohhiri Sea, until June 20.Participated in the exercise include more than 60 Russian warships and support ships, about 35 naval aircraft, coastal forces, and more than 11,000 military personnel.
Comprehensive Reuters, Agence France -Presse, and Yonhap reports, almost at the same time as the Sino -Russian United Air's strategic cruise, the United States, Japan and the Philippines held exercises in the waters near Batan, Philippines from June 1st to 7th.It is the first time that the three parties have conducted joint military exercises in the South China Sea.A Chinese warship was near a U.S. destroyer last weekend, while the United States and the Canadian Navy were conducting joint exercises in the sensitive Taiwan Strait, causing international attention.
China and Russia have launched a joint air -on cruise in Northeast Asia since 2019. The following four times in December 2020, November 2021, May 2022, and November 2022, respectively.
During the fifth Sino -Russian joint air cruise, when South Korea's bombers and fighters in China and Russia entered its air defense identification zone, they also urgently mobilized fighter response.When a Chinese bomber and two Russian drones flew into the Japan Sea, Japan also took off spray aircraft urgently.
In the fourth Sino -Russian joint air cruise, the Sino -Russian fighter aircraft flew to the leadership of Japan, and Tokyo was holding a Sifang Summit with the leaders of the United States, India and Australia at that time.This shocked Japan, although China said that flight was not aimed at third parties.
