Bulldozer. File photoTOKYO, June 10 Japan is banning the export of trucks, dump trucks and bulldozers to Russia from June 17, Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade Koichi Hagiudo said.
"In light of the decisions government of June 7, which adopted a ban on the export to Russia of goods that strengthen its industrial base. In this regard, from June 17, a ban is introduced on the export of trucks, dump trucks, bulldozers and other types of equipment to Russia", he said at a press conference.
Earlier, Japan banned the supply of luxury goods to Russia, including luxury cars, expensive alcoholic beverages, cosmetics, and leather goods. In addition, the export of high-tech equipment for oil refining, quantum computers and their components, electron and atomic force microscopes, 3D printers and consumables for them is prohibited. hydrogen fuel and renewable energy, vacuum pumps. The export of refrigeration equipment designed for extremely low temperatures and materials that make it difficult to detect electromagnetic waves is also prohibited.The United States admitted that sanctions against Russia provoke a rise in pricesSanctions adopted by the Japanese government since the beginning of the events in Ukraine apply to 507 people from Russia, 253 people from the LPR and DPR, 201 Russian companies and organizations, 11 banks. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. Western countries, after the start of the special operation, imposed new sanctions against Moscow. President Vladimir Putin has said that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for the West, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. The head of state emphasized that the current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West both in politics and in the economy. According to him, Russia is not going to isolate itself and it cannot be strictly isolated in the modern world.