UK Prime Minister Boris JohnsonTOKYO, Jan 31 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson canceled planned for mid-February a visit to Japan due to the situation around Ukraine, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing sources in diplomatic circles. with the growing tension in the situation around Ukraine,» the agency said. Earlier it was reported that Johnson planned to visit Japan in mid-February and hold a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during which the topics of combating coronavirus, carbon neutrality, and Chinese and Ukrainian issues were also raised. The last meeting between Kishida and Johnson took place last November in Glasgow on the sidelines of the UN Conference climate COP26. The plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine are categorically denied in Moscow and constantly declare that no one is threatened, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. Tokyo monitors the situation around Ukraine
