The Financial Times claimed that Russia is planning an attack on East Asia

According to Isna, since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries and their media arms have always accused Moscow of trying to fight against other Western countries and NATO members.

In this regard, the English publication “Financial Times” has claimed in an alleged report, citing documents seen by itself, that Russia wants to attack “strategic targets” in Japan and South Korea.

The publication wrote: “Secret Russian military files between 2013 and 2014 detail plans for a strategic attack on Japan and South Korea, focusing on 82 key military and civilian targets.”

According to the Financial Times, the Bank of Russia’s targets in Japan include energy infrastructure, major transportation hubs and nuclear power plants, and in South Korea, bridges, industrial facilities and nuclear power plants.

The English publication again insisted on the authenticity of the documents it had seen, claiming that the said documents show scenarios for non-nuclear missile attacks “Kh-101” (Kh-101) and air defense tests in 2014 including 2 Tupolev 95 bombers (Tu 95-9) which was sent to challenge the air defenses of Japan and South Korea.

According to the publication, Moscow’s “grave concern” about its eastern flank was highlighted in documents shown to the Financial Times by Western sources, with “Russian military planners fearing that the country’s eastern borders would be exposed in any war with NATO.” to be attacked and vulnerable by countries aligned with America and regional allies.”

The British publication also claimed that the documents were extracted from 29 secret Russian military files, which focused mainly on the training of officers for a possible conflict on the country’s eastern borders from 2008 to 14, and are still related to Russia’s grand strategy.

Asia has become central to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategy to pursue an all-out invasion of Ukraine and his broader anti-NATO stance, Financial Times.

This claim is while, according to this English publication, America has gathered significant forces in South Korea and Japan with the claim of trying to “pressure the Kremlin’s war machine” and “threats from China”.

The alleged report of the Financial Times about the possibility of Russia attacking South Korea and Japan, while both Pyongyang and Beijing are close allies of Moscow.

In this regard, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Putin signed a mutual defense treaty at a meeting in June, in which each side will come to the other’s aid in the event of an armed attack.

The West claims that under the same treaty, North Korea has since sent thousands of troops to support Russia in its war with Ukraine, and Seoul and Washington have claimed that many of them have been killed or wounded.

In the field of relations between Beijing and Moscow, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s message to his Russian counterpart that the political trust between China and Russia under the leadership The strategic of the presidents of the two countries is reaching a new level.

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