The Japanese Ministry of Defense will provide additional military assistance to Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Japanese military department, General Nakatani, in a meeting with his Ukrainian colleague Rustem Umerov, held on the sidelines of the summit of NATO defense ministers, TASS reports citing the NHK television channel.
There is no information on the content of the negotiations or what specific technology was discussed.
Previously, Tokyo had already transferred about 100 Self-Defense Forces vehicles, including trucks, to kyiv. Following this, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko summoned the Japanese ambassador to Moscow, where he told him that such actions would lead to an escalation of hostilities and a further increase in the number of victims of the kyiv regime.
