On February 28, 2025, in Sakhalin, Russia, a rescue operation successfully brought 374 fishermen to shore after they were ...

People of Japanese descent on Russia's Sakhalin island have long cherished the opportunity to step foot in their ancestral homeland, but the conflict in Ukraine has made those trips all but ...

Officials from the Russian Emergencies Ministry have initiated an immediate rescue operation to save 200 individuals stranded ...

Russian Emergencies Ministry officials have launched an urgent mission to rescue 200 people trapped on a sheet of frozen ice.

It is not uncommon for people to become trapped on ice floes in Sakhalin, a 1,000-kilometer (621 mile) strip of land that is Russia’s largest island. Last February, more than 80 fishermen were ...

"The rescue operation in Sakhalin is over. Eighty-two people were evacuated and brought to shore. There are no casualties," the ministry said. In the morning of February 18, the Russian ...

TASS/. A gas cylinder may have caused the explosion that killed nine people in Sakhalin, a representative of emergency services told TASS on Saturday. "Tentatively, it was an explosion of a 20 ...

Karafuto, as Sakhalin was formerly known, was home to 400,000 Japanese before World War II. On the eve of Japan’s defeat in August 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto and seized its official ...