Japan will implement a set of economic sanctions against Russia and two pro-Russian separatist regions in eastern Ukraine after Moscow formally recognized the areas and ordered the deployment of troops there, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday.
The government will suspend visa issuance for officials from the two regions and freeze their assets. It will ban exports to and imports from the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as well as the issuance and trading of new Russian sovereign bonds in Japan, Kishida said.
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Europe,
U.S.,
Vladimir Putin,
Russia,
Fumio Kishida,
NATO,
EU,
Ukraine,
Japan,
Russia-Japan relations,
Russia-Ukraine war
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