Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Sojojin Red sun yi nasarar cinye rabin kudancin tsibirin Sakhalin. Tsibirin ya kasance tsakanin Japan da Rasha na ƙarni guda kuma sun yi yaƙi da shi
a lokacin Yaƙin Russo-Japan na 1905, kuma a shekara ta 1945, an raba shi tsakanin ƙasashen biyu (rabin kudancin Japan ana kiransa Prefecture na Karafuto). Daga nan sai Soviets suka kama tsibirin Kuril da suka fara a ranar 18 ga watan Agusta, kwana uku bayan Jafananci sun mika wuya.