Putin Protests As Japan Fires HIMARS During Joint Military Drills With US Near Russian Borders

After Ukraine, it’s the presence of US-made HIMARS in Russia’s east that has President Putin worried. Moscow has registered a protest with the Japanese embassy against the US-Japan joint drills involving the lethal HIMARS rockets. The Russian Foreign Ministry claims the HIMARS rocket systems were fired close to Russia's borders. The US and Japan are conducting a 14-day joint military drill in the Yausubetsu training area in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture.