Japanese IT giant NEC suspends supplies and investments in Russia

Tokyo SkylineTOKYO, Mar 22 , as well as investments in products and services in Russia. «In order to comply with the requirements of the Japanese government, NEC Group is suspending the acceptance of new orders, deliveries, and investments in products and services in Russia,» the company said in a statement. The Japanese corporation also announced that it intends to donate 500 thousand euros through the World Food Program in order to provide humanitarian support to people who were forced to leave Ukraine. Russia launched a 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 the Russian Federation and major Russian organizations. In addition, Japan introduced a ban on the export of almost 300 items of goods and technologies to Russia.