Japan to provide 100 military vehicles to Ukraine
Japan held a ceremony on Wednesday marking its planned donation of about 100 military vehicles to Ukraine, MNA reports.
In a ceremony at the Defense Ministry at which two half-ton trucks were on display, Japanese Vice Defense Minister Toshiro Ino handed a document to Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky listing the three types of vehicles included in the donation, ABC News reported.
The donation, which also includes 30,000 food rations, comes as Japan’s government is seeking to ease its military equipment transfer policy under a new national security policy that allows its military a greater offensive role, in a major break from its post-World War II self-defense-only principle.
While other countries have provided Ukraine with tanks, missiles and fighter jets, Japan has limited its donations to non-lethal equipment because the transfer policy prohibits the provision of lethal weapons to countries at war.
Japan has provided Ukraine with bulletproof vests, helmets, gas masks, hazmat suits, small drones and food rations since last year that Russia attacked Ukraine.
Tokyo has joined the United States and European nations in sanctioning Russia as well and in providing humanitarian and economic support for Ukraine.
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