ＨＩＭＡＲＳ訓練に抗議　北方領土近くで実施―ロシア外務省

　ロシア外務省は１２日、陸上自衛隊矢臼別演習場（北海道）で高機動ロケット砲システム（ＨＩＭＡＲＳ）を用いた日米共同訓練が実施されたとして、在ロシア日本大使館に「断固抗議した」と発表した。
　声明は「ロシア国境に近い」ことを問題視しており、ロシアが実効支配する北方領土を射程に収める場所での日米共同訓練に過度に反応した形だ。「ロシア極東の安全保障への脅威と見なし、こうした行動の即時停止を求める」と強調した。
　また、外務省のザハロワ情報局長も談話を出し、岸田文雄政権の非友好的な措置には適切に対処すると警告した。（2022/10/13-01:58）

Russia's Foreign Ministry has protested recent Japan-U.S. joint drills in which the U.S. military's High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, was deployed in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido.
   The ministry said in a statement released Wednesday that it has made a decided protest to the Japanese Embassy in Russia against the drills held in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Yausubetsu training area in Hokkaido.
   According to the statement, the Russian side found it problematic that the drills took place close to Russia's borders. Moscow apparently reacted excessively to the drills held in a location that has Russian-controlled northwestern Pacific islands at the center of a long-standing territorial row between Tokyo and Moscow within the rocket system's range.
   The ministry stressed that it regards the drills as a threat to the security of Russia's Far East, calling for the immediate suspension of such an act.
   In a separate statement, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that Russia will take appropriate measures against the unfriendly move by the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.