Russia warns Japan about sending “Patriot” missiles to Ukraine

According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, “Sergei Zestaki”, the head of the Third Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, in an interview with “Sputnik”, announced that Moscow through diplomatic channels to the Japanese authorities regarding the consequences of sending missiles of the air defense system “Patriot” has warned Ukraine.

In late December 2023, the White House confirmed the decision of Japanese officials to transfer Patriot missiles to the United States, claiming that this would “enhance security and peace.” Japan helps in the Indo-Pacific region

However, the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, after the meeting between Japanese Ambassador to Russia Akira Moto and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko, announced that the missiles Patriots, which were transferred from Japan to America, will not be used in Ukraine.

Sergei Zestaki also emphasized that Russia will not leave the recent sanctions of the Japanese government against Moscow unanswered and will soon give an appropriate response to these sanctions.

Japan has always supported Kiev since the beginning of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine and has imposed many sanctions against Moscow; Another issue of dispute between Moscow and Tokyo is the Kuril Islands, which both countries claim to be the owners of these islands.

At the beginning of February, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian National Security Council and the former president of this country, told the Japanese government that if they want a peace treaty with Russia for the official end of World War II. conclude, he must give up his territorial claims (on a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean).

Deputy of the Russian Security Council wrote on his official account on X: Ahadi is against the treaty with the understanding that… the territorial issue has been closed once and for all according to the Russian Constitution. There is no peace. Japan should also accept that Russia develops the Kuril Islands and deploys new weapons there.

Medovev added: We do not care about the feelings of the Japanese regarding the so-called “Northern lands”. These are not disputed territories, but Russia. And those samurai who feel particularly sad can end their lives in the traditional Japanese way by committing seppuku (ritual Japanese suicide by defecating), if they dare.

He further accused Japan of loving America; Despite the fact that the US military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.