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A district court in Fukushima, Japan, convicts three former soldiers for sexually assaulting a colleague, Rina Gonoi, during a military exercise in 2021, sentencing them to two years in prison and suspending them from the military for four years.
2023-12-12

Russia's Northern Fleet conducts navy exercises in the Barents Sea aimed at preventing the passage of unauthorised and foreign ships.
2023-08-26

North Korea conducts drills simulating a nuclear counterattack in response to joint amphibious landing exercises by the United States and South Korea.
2023-03-20

Russia accuses the United Kingdom's Royal Navy of blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea on September 26. The Russian Defence Ministry says the Navy was also behind recent attacks on Russian Navy facilities in Crimea. The British government denies both accusations.
2022-10-29

Ukraine says that Russian Navy drills in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov have made navigation "virtually impossible", stating that the drills are part of a "hybrid war" against the country. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that the Sea of Azov is completely blocked, essentially blockading Ukrainian ports.
2022-02-10

A video is shown of troops from the Armed Forces of Belarus and the Eastern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces conducting military drills and "combat cohesions" in Belarus amid ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
2022-02-2

Russia says its navy made a United States destroyer turn back after threatening to ram it, claiming that the destroyer violated Russia's territorial waters in the Peter the Great Gulf, "passing the maritime border by two kilometers". The U.S. navy says that their destroyer conducted a freedom of navigation operation to challenge a Russian claim "inconsistent with the rules of international law as reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention to enclose the waters of a bay".
2020-11-24

Indonesian palm oil tanker ship MV "Namse Bangdzod" vanishes in the Java Sea. The ship, with a crew of twelve, is theorised by rescuers to be the victim of piracy, a notion dismissed by the Navy.
2019-12-28

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and South Korean Minister of National Defense Jeong Kyeong-doo announce that their countries will postpone their annual joint military air exercises to help facilitate the peace process.
2019-11-17

Malaysia detains over a thousand Bangladeshi and Rohingya people asylum seekers who arrived by boat on Monday. The Indonesian Navy confirms that it had turned the boats away.
2015-05-11