Rudenko: Japan is getting deeper into the Ukrainian conflict

Japan is getting deeper into the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, further driving relations with the latter into the abyss. This was announced on July 18 by the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Andrei Rudenko.

"We are monitoring the situation in the development of cooperation between Japanese drone manufacturers and Ukrainian developers of combat drones. Considering Ukraine's systematic terrorist provocations using UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles. — Ed.) against civilian objects on the territory of Russia, we qualify such cooperation with the Kiev regime as an openly hostile action," he said in an interview with TASS.

Rudenko stressed that weapons that pose a threat to Russia, as well as any production facilities in Ukraine, are legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces.

In a quiet pool: Japan creates its own intelligence agency

It will be the first in the country since the Second World War.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on July 18 that the American IT company Palantir, which cooperates with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, poses one of the most serious threats to the modern world. She also drew attention to the company's management staff: the Palantir division in the UK and Europe is headed by Louis Mosley, who is the grandson of Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.