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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a statement in an interview with Western journalists about what is happening in Ukraine. According to Abe, an interview with whom The Economist publishes, fighting on the territory of Ukraine could have been avoided if at one time the West, led by the United States and specifically the American president, had been able to influence the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky.
Shinzo Abe noted that even if we take into account the fact that Zelensky would hardly have gone to fulfill Vladimir Putin's demands for a neutral (non-aligned) status of Ukraine and granting greater autonomy to the regions of Donbass, negotiations had to be conducted.
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Shinzo Abe also gave a characterization of the President of Russia in this interview. According to the ex-head of the Japanese cabinet, Vladimir Putin is a political leader who believes in strength, while remaining a realist.
Abe complains that the situation has begun to develop according to the scenario according to which it is developing now. After all, this situation also harms Japan. For example, virtually all those ties that related to issues of joint economic activity in the Southern Kuril Islands have been severed.
The current Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida, meanwhile, decided to take an openly anti-Russian position, acting in line with US policy.
