The 139 fishermen became stranded when a 10-meter (32 feet) crack formed an ice floe that broke away from the island of Sakhalin and floated into the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan ...
The incident occurred when a 10-metre crack formed on the ice, extending from the village of Malki to the mouth of the Dolinka River on the Russian island of Sakhalin. A total of 44 fishermen 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 ...