Japan has handed over new trucks to Kherson’s utility companies, said Roman Mrochko, head of the city’s military administration. “We received the new Japanese equipment under the Grant Agreement for the Emergency Recovery Program between the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the government of Ukraine,” Mrochko said in a telegram on Saturday.
He noted that Kherson really needs such equipment and thanked international partners for their help.
Japan plans to provide Ukraine with $3.3bn in support loans using interest from frozen Russian assets, Kyodo has quoted diplomatic sources as saying.
According to the sources, during the summit, G7 members agreed to allocate a total of $50 billion to support Ukraine.
The US and the EU are expected to allocate $20 billion each, while Japan, Britain and Canada will “share” the remaining $10 billion.
The G7 plans to start implementing the project by the end of this year.
The Government of Japan has handed over two Nikken mechanized demining vehicles to the State Emergency Service (SES), which will be sent to Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions on July 9, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
“We would like to thank the government and the Embassy of Japan, as well as the JICA international cooperation agency, for their help and joint resilience in difficult times for Ukraine,” Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko was quoted as saying in a statement on the press service’s Telegram channel on Tuesday:
For his part, Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori expressed his admiration for the pyrotechnics and sappers who are tirelessly clearing Ukrainian soil of explosive devices.
“The transferred vehicles will be sent to Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions today to perform the necessary tasks,” the statement said.
Active Group and Experts Club have conducted a joint study on the attitudes of Ukrainians towards the countries of East Asia and the Middle East. The research was presented at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency in June 2024. The research was presented by Maksym Urakin and Oleksandr Poznyi. The results of the study are as follows:
The results of the survey are as follows:
Completely positive – 36.6
Mostly positive – 37.8
Mostly negative – 3.8
Completely negative – 2.9 %.
Difficult to answer – 18.9%.
Positive – Negative – 67.7
Japan recognized Ukraine’s independence on December 28, 1991, and established diplomatic relations with Ukraine on January 26, 1992. On January 20, 1993, the Japanese Embassy was opened in Ukraine.
The joint research by Active Group and Experts Club on the attitudes of Ukrainians towards the countries of East Asia and the Middle East was conducted in April-May 2024. It covers such countries as Turkey, Iran, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, India, China, Republic of Korea, DPRK, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Syria, and Iraq. Full information on the research is available on the website of the Club of Experts at
https://expertsclub.eu/cpilne-doslidzhennya-kompaniyi-active-group-ta-experts-club-shhodo-stavlennya-ukrayincziv-do-krayin-shidnoyi-aziyi-ta-blyzkogo-shodu/
At the request of the Ukrainian government, Japan has provided Ukraine with a series of vehicles, the Japanese Embassy reports.
“At the request of the Ukrainian government, the Ministry of Defense of Japan and the Japan Self-Defense Forces provided Ukraine with a series of vehicles under a decision made in May 2023. The batch of 101 vehicles arrived in Poland on June 5 and was then handed over to Ukraine,” the X social media post reads.
The embassy emphasized that Japan would continue to support Ukraine.
In turn, the Ministry of Defense in X expressed gratitude to Japan for its support and informed that the aid includes Toyota HMV and Mitsubishi Type 73 Kogata SUVs, as well as PC-065B tracked engineering vehicles.
Japan is considering opening Asian markets to Ukrainian agricultural products, particularly chicken meat, said Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori at a meeting with Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky.
“Ambassador Matsuda Kuninori said that the Japanese side has confirmed the participation of its delegation in the International Conference on Ukraine Recovery (URC2024), which will be held on June 11-12, 2024 in Berlin. Japan is organizing a roundtable discussion on Ukrainian-Japanese cooperation in the agricultural sector,” the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said.
The acting minister, for his part, thanked Japan for its systematic support of Ukraine and noted that the opening of Asian markets for Ukrainian agricultural products is an important step for the development of bilateral relations and business.
