Russia has warned Japan about the consequences of transferring Patriot air defense missiles to the United States, which could eventually be supplied to Kiev. This was stated by Sergei Zhestky, acting director of the third Asian department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. RIA News.
The diplomat reminded that in December last year, the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida relaxed the rules regarding the export of military products in order to transfer ammunition for air defense systems to the USA.
“We directly warned the Japanese side, through Ambassador Muto in Moscow, that we have no doubt that the ultimate beneficiary of such a decision is the Kiev regime,” Zhestky said.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that Moscow will consider Tokyo’s possible positive decision as complicity in the conflict in Ukraine.
In March, Yomiuri newspaper quoted sources as saying that the US and Japan we are negotiatingThey want to reach an agreement on increasing ammunition supplies to Ukraine and discuss cooperation in the defense sector.
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