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Leaked FSB letter, mentioning that Russia intends to attack Japan in 2021. Photo/Illustration
The email, dated March 17, was sent by an agent dubbed Wind of Change to Vladimir Osechkin, a Russian human rights activist who runs the anti-corruption website Gulagu.net, and is now exiled in France.
FSB agents regularly write dispatches to Osechkin, expressing anger and discontent within the military over the war that began when Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine on February 24.
In an email to Osechkin in March, the agency said that as of August 2021, Russia is preparing quite seriously for a local military conflict with Japan.
The FSB agent suggested that Russia’s vote to invade Ukraine would be decided months later.
“Confidence that the two countries will enter the stage of acute confrontation and even war is very high. Because Ukraine was (eventually) chosen for war in the end (the scenario has not changed much) it is someone else who must respond,” they wrote as quoted by Newsweek, Friday (11/25/2022).
The whistleblower detailed the movements of EW helicopters targeting Japan, while the Russian propaganda machine has also begun a major push to label Japan as Nazis and fascists.
It can be said that the relationship between Russia and Japan itself is not good. The two countries never signed a peace treaty to end World War II. Largely due to disputes over island groups claimed by Japan but occupied by Russia.
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The two countries are known to be engaged in a war of claims over the Kuril Islands group. Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and Habomai Islands in the Kuril Islands chain were captured by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Tokyo claims the islands as its “Northern Territory” and this issue has strained relations between Russia and Japan for decades.
