ロシア海軍が宗谷海峡通過　政府「重大な懸念」伝達

　松野博一官房長官は１５日の記者会見で、ロシア海軍の艦艇６隻が１４日に宗谷海峡を通過したことを明らかにした。１０日にもロシアの軍艦が津軽海峡を通過しており、松野氏は「ウクライナ情勢の中でロシア軍がわが国周辺で活動を活発化させていることを重大な懸念を持って注視していると申し入れた」と説明した。
　松野氏は「ロシア軍はウクライナ侵略の動きと呼応する形で、２月以降、オホーツク海などで特異な大規模海上演習を行っていて、６隻はこの演習に参加したと考えられる」と指摘。「緊張感を持って情報収集、警戒監視を実施していく」と語った。
　防衛省によると、１４日午前０時ごろ、海上自衛隊が北海道宗谷岬の南東約１３０キロの海域で６隻を確認。宗谷海峡を日本海側に向けて西進したという。（2022/03/15-11:03）

Six Russian navy ships have passed through the Soya Strait between Cape Soya in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido and the Russian island of Sakhalin, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a press conference Tuesday.
   The Japanese government has told the Russian side that it is closely watching, with grave concern, the Russian military's growing activities in areas around Japan amid the crisis over Ukraine, the top government spokesman said.
   "The Russian military has been carrying out extraordinary naval drills on a large scale in the Sea of Okhotsk and other areas since February in conjunction with Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, and the six ships are believed to have participated in the drills," Matsuno said.
   "We'll collect information (on the incident) and be on alert with a sense of tension," he said.
   According to the Japanese Defense Ministry, the Maritime Self-Defense Force spotted the six ships at a point some 130 kilometers southeast of Cape Soya, the northernmost part of Hokkaido, around midnight Sunday (3 p.m. GMT). They sailed west across the Soya Strait toward the Sea of Japan.