• An Air-Self Defense Force plane departs for Ukraine in March. Japan had intended to have SDF aircraft stop over in India while delivering aid supplies to Ukrainian evacuees, but India has refused to let them land. | KYODO
    An Air-Self Defense Force plane departs for Ukraine in March. Japan had intended to have SDF aircraft stop over in India while delivering aid supplies to Ukrainian evacuees, but India has refused to let them land. | KYODO

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Self-Defense Forces aircraft will now not stop over in India en route to delivering aid supplies to Ukrainian evacuees, it was learned Tuesday.

The ruling Liberal Democratic party approved at a meeting the same day the government’s plan to send SDF aircraft to airlift aid supplies to Poland and Romania after collecting them in the United Arab Emirates.

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