According to Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, the Russian military has moved S-300 air defense missile systems off the Kuril Islands.
Citing Yu Koizumi from the University of Tokyo, who analyzed satellite images of the islands of Iturup and Kunashir, made by Maxar Technologies, Koizumi says new images do not show the air defense systems near Kasatka Bay on Iturup, or near Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashir.
Koizumi suggests that they may have been moved to the border with Ukraine for use in the war.
The Russian military probably also repaired and sent old tanks and howitzers stored at a military base on Sakhalin to the front, said Koizumi, emphasizing that the Russian army has to use all the weapons at its disposal.
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