The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution recognizing that the territory of the southern Kuril Islands is part of Japan and is under Russian occupation. The head of parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk has already signed the document, according to the official website of BP.

287 people's deputies voted for the adoption of the resolution " In it, Ukraine officially supported the position of Japan, which in March recognized the southern Kuril Islands as its "

The Rada appealed to the world to continue all possible measures to legally formalize the status of the Kuril Islands, and also asked the UN, the European Parliament, PACE, the Parliamentary Assemblies of NATO, the OSCE and GUAM and the national parliaments of other states to provide consistent support and activities to resolve the status of the Northern Territories.

Recall that the southern Kuril Islands are the territory of Japan, which was illegally occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, despite the fact that in 1855 Russia recognized these lands as an integral part of Japan.. Subsequently, the Japanese were forcibly evicted from there..

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As a result of the Soviet-Japanese war, Russia - as the legal successor of the USSR - and Japan did not sign a peace treaty. The Russian Federation has not fulfilled its obligations, which the Verkhovna Rada draws attention to in the aforementioned resolution.

Today, Japan claims four southern islands of the Kuril chain: Iturup, Shikotan, Kunashir and Habomai.

Since 2011, these territories have been called the “ancestral lands” of the country, and later the name was changed due to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Against the background of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tokyo is reconsidering relations with Moscow and is once again starting to use language about the illegal Russian occupation of these territories in relation to the southern Kuril Islands. Read about the nuances of Japanese-Russian relations in the article by Natalia Butyrskaya “How Japan is fighting for the islands illegally occupied by Russia”.