Ukrainian army servicemen. File photoNEW DELHI, Apr 21India has allowed Japan to pick up humanitarian supplies from the Mumbai UN depot for Ukraine using commercial flights, but a separate request is needed for a Japan Self-Defense Force aircraft to fly over, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi. «We have received a request from Japan for permission to land in Mumbai. As far as we understand, in order to pick up humanitarian supplies, there is a UNHCR warehouse where you can pick up humanitarian supplies from the warehouse in order to deliver them to Ukraine and neighboring countries.I would like to confirm that we have transferred our consent to the delivery of goods from India using commercial aircraft. We also need to receive a separate request for permission to fly a Japan Self-Defense Force aircraft with humanitarian cargo for Ukraine,» Bagci said during a briefing. jpg» />In Britain, they demanded that India abandon friendship with Russia to its own detriment. Earlier, the Kyodo agency reported that India refused to accept a Japanese self-defense forces plane with a cargo of aid to Ukraine. At the end of April, the plane was supposed to take a cargo of humanitarian aid to Poland and Romania, neighboring Ukraine, through the UN Refugee Commission. India and the United Arab Emirates are used as transit points for this. According to the agency, the issue was agreed with India at the working level, but on April 20 a refusal was received. Lack of coordination is cited as the reason. Now, in order to resolve the issue and plans to send aid, it was decided to postpone the official decision on it, which should have been made at a government meeting on Friday. In March, Japan sent assistance to Ukraine in the form of non-lethal defense equipment: bulletproof vests, helmets, warm clothes, tents, cameras, hygiene products , dry rations, self-defense force generators. On Tuesday, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi announced plans to send surveillance drones, masks and chemical protection clothing to Ukraine as humanitarian aid. China and India foiled the West's plans to «strangle» Russia
