TOKYO – Japan will supply Ukraine recent monetary help value $5.5 billion, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stated Monday, days earlier than the primary anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
Japan, this yr’s Group of Seven president, has joined Western powers in imposing sanctions on Moscow for the reason that struggle started on February 24, 2022.
It has already offered Ukraine with monetary help value $600 million together with tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ value of emergency humanitarian help, in line with the prime minister’s workplace.
But “there is still a need to assist people whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the war, and to restore destroyed infrastructure”, Kishida stated in a speech at a suppose tank symposium in Tokyo.
“We have decided to provide additional financial support of $5.5 billion.”
The Japanese premier additionally introduced he’ll host a video convention of the G7 leaders with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, the invasion’s one-year anniversary.
“This year, Japan, as G7 president and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, will support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression and lead the world’s efforts to uphold a free and open international order based on the rule of law,” Kishida stated.
The G7 leaders will meet in individual in Hiroshima in May.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion was launched, Japan has additionally taken the uncommon steps of sending defensive gear and providing refuge to these fleeing the battle.
The nation has a pacifist post-war structure, which limits its navy capability to ostensibly defensive measures.
Kishida’s bulletins got here as US President Joe Biden, on an unannounced go to to Kyiv, promised elevated arms deliveries for Ukraine.
It is Biden’s first go to to Ukraine for the reason that struggle started, and the journey was hailed by Zelensky as “an extremely important sign of support for all Ukrainians”. — Agence France-Presse
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