MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - Japan will extend $300,000 in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced Friday.
The funds will be distributed equally through the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In June, Japan announced it would provide humanitarian $270,000 in aid to Ukraine, but has increased the amount due to the worsening of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and an increase in the number of refugees from the eastern part of the country.
Japan hopes the aid will help stabilize the situation in Ukraine.
Tokyo intends to continue dialogue with Moscow to resolve territorial disputes, sign a peace treaty and discuss the situation in Ukraine, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday.
“There are currently some issues between Japan and Russia, especially regarding the Ukrainian crisis,” but Japan “sets a high value on a political dialogue with Russia, to also rouse it to constructive actions in this issue,” Kishida said.
Since April, Ukrainian authorities have been conducting a military operation against the independence supporters in eastern Ukraine who refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government.
The West has repeatedly accused Russia of building up military forces on its border with eastern Ukraine and supplying independence supporters with weapons, a claim Moscow has denied.
