TOKYO, Mar 17 Russia in the current conditions are impossible, said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a parliamentary hearing.
"As for the eight-point joint action plan, given the current situation, we are aware that new actions ), of course, are now impossible", — said the head of the Japanese government.
Earlier, in the light of the events in Ukraine, representatives of the Japanese government have repeatedly stated that it is impossible to maintain relations with Russia in the form it was before. Russia began military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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. In response to this, the United States, the EU countries and a number of other states, including Japan, introduced new sanctions against Russia and major Russian organizations.