View of the center of Kyiv. File photoTOKYO, Mar 2 Japan temporarily closes its embassy in Kyiv amid Russia's military operation to demilitarize Ukraine, Kyodo news agency reported, citing the Foreign Ministry.
"The Foreign Ministry said that Japan is temporarily closing its embassy in Kyiv after Russia's invasion of Ukraine", the agency writes.
The agency also notes that a temporary representative office has been established in western Ukraine. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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