New Delhi, August 9: The Russian Foreign Ministry has targeted Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. Russia stated that Takaichi lacks the courage to name those responsible for the nuclear attack.
According to a report by Russia’s state news agency TASS, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticized Takaichi for failing to mention who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan 81 years ago. During a ceremony commemorating the anniversary, Takaichi did not specify that the bomb was dropped by the United States.
Zakharova wrote on Telegram, “Does Japan’s current leadership believe that nuclear UFOs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Nagasaki’s Mayor Shiro Suzuki had the courage to clearly state that the bomb was dropped by an ‘American military aircraft.’”
She noted that three days earlier, during a memorial ceremony for the Hiroshima bombing anniversary, both Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and Prime Minister Takaichi also refrained from directly naming the country responsible for the attack. Even UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did not mention the United States in his message.
The TASS report indicated that Zakharova’s comments followed memorial events in Japan honoring the victims of the atomic bombings, where the names of the countries responsible were not explicitly mentioned by several speakers.
Previously, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, also criticized Japan on the anniversary of the atomic bombings. He expressed shame that Japan did not once name those responsible while remembering that horrific period.
Medvedev wrote on the social media platform X, “While commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, neither the Prime Minister nor any other Japanese official took the trouble to mention who carried out these attacks. This is truly shameful.” He added that Japan is overly dependent on the United States and may one day become like a ‘ronin,’ a person without a protector or support.
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