The incident comes days after Japan hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 in Hiroshima.
Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after Russian"intelligence-gathering" aircraft were detected off its coasts along the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan, the country's Joint Staff said.
There was no further information on the incident, which comes days after Japan hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 in Hiroshima. In May 2022, Chinese and Russian military jets carried out joint flights near Japan immediately after a meeting of the US-led Quad grouping in Tokyo.
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