Japan scrambles fighter jet to East China Sea islands after flyover by Russian chopper

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It's emerged that Japan scrambled a fighter jet to a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea after a Russian patrol chopper was spotted flying over the area.
Japan's defense ministry reported Wednesday that the Russian helicopter had flown over two of the five islands in the archipelago for a number of hours the previous day.
The chopper went as close as ten-kilometers to Japan's airspace,... but eventually landed on a Russian destroyer that was sailing around the islands.
In June, a Russian naval vessel sailed in a zone bordering the islands,... but this is the first time a helicopter has flown over the area.
The Japanese government bought three of the islands in 2012,... but they are still the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute between Japan and China.

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