Russia promised a proportionate response to Japanese sanctions

Moscow will respond proportionately to Tokyo’s unfriendly attacks. This was stated by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in connection with Japan’s announcement of the 27th “package” of sanctions against Russia, TASS reports.

“Tokyo’s unfriendly attacks will not remain without proportionate countermeasures on our part, which will be focused primarily on areas of interest to Japan,” the diplomat said in a commentary on the ministry’s website.

According to Zakharova, the government of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, by its actions against the Russian Federation, not only does not bring the establishment of long-term peace in Ukraine any closer, but only delays its prospects. The diplomat also said that Tokyo continues to take thoughtless steps that provoke the degradation of “what little is left” of relations with Moscow.

She also noted that the new sanctions confirm the lack of independence of Tokyo's foreign policy. “We see in this another confirmation of the lack of independence of the foreign policy course pursued by Tokyo, dictated not by national interests, but by the reckless solidarity of Japan with the so-called like-minded people in the Euro-Atlantic, pathologically fixated on the idea of ​​inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia,” said a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.