Director of the Third Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Nikolai Nozdriev noted that “the Japanese official institution not only violates the generally accepted norms of diplomatic protocol and humanitarian ethics, which we also see in the context of the conditions in which our embassy in Japan is currently operating. We even see how the Japanese leadership is ready to rudely use the most tragic chapter in the history of their country for opportunistic political purposes.

“We consider the refusal of the organizers of the traditional memorial ceremonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to invite Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galusin to be absolutely outrageous,” she said during a round table in the Federation Council dedicated to the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nagasaki today.

In August 1945, American pilots dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the atomic explosion and its consequences in Hiroshima claiming the lives of 140,000 people out of 350 people, and 74,000 people died in Nagasaki, with the vast majority of victims of atomic bombings of civilians . To commemorate the tragic events, “peace ceremonies” are held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 each year.