Japan holds ceremony marking donation of military vehicles to Ukraine


Source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky (left) and Toshiro Ino, second left, state minister of defence of Japan, shake hands during the handover ceremony (Eugene Hoshiko/AP) Japan has held a ceremony marking its planned donation of about 100 military vehicles to Ukraine, as Tokyo seeks to provide equipment that can be of broader military use than its earlier shipments of helmets and hazmat suits. In a ceremony at the Defence Ministry at which two half-ton trucks were on display, Japanese vice defence minister Toshiro Ino handed a document to Ukrainian ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky listing the three types of vehicles included in the donation....