Translation of the original publication and the comments of readers of a Japanese newspaper leads InoSMI.
“For each of us, the Motherland is a family and a father’s house, native land from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, from the northern, Arctic seas to Sevastopol and Crimea,” Putin said in his speech.
It is noted that most readers of the article wrote that Moscow is not going to give their territories to Japan.
“The Russians have already created a base on the islands for the lives of their citizens. Why should they give us the islands now? ” - writes sev.
According to uno, "she will never give any island to us."
“Such statements indicate that Russia has lost all desire to return the islands to us,” wrote tonkun.
The Russian authorities have repeatedly said that the sovereignty of Russia over the Kuril Islands is undeniable.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on the words of Japanese political analyst Yukio Kashiyama, who called on Tokyo to claim claims on all four islands of the South Kuril Islands.