Russia Ukraine War Live News: Earlier today, Russia’s FSB arrested a Japanese journalist in the Sokhalin Oblast for alleged spying. Now, Tokyo has urged Moscow to give ‘impartial treatment’ to the journalist, identified as Yuki Imai. Meanwhile Ukraine struck Russia’s biggest data centre in Saratov in a major escalation.
Russia Ukraine War Live News: Japan Asks Russia to Ensure ‘Impartial Treatment’ of Journalist Detained in Sokhalin
This morning, Russia’s main intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a Japanese journalist in its Far East region on suspicion. The man, identified as Yuki Imai, was working as a newspaper correspondent in the Sakhalin Oblast and was planning to leave Russia soon.
In a statement on its website, the FSB said the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper journalist was detained in the far eastern Sakhalin region on the day before he planned to leave Russia . Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson said that Imai was allegedly “conducting espionage activities on Russian territory”.
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Now, Japan has reached out to Russia and urged it to ensure that the arrested journalist receives ‘impartial treatment’. Speaking about the same Japan’s foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi said that “The Japanese embassy … in Moscow and the Consulate General in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk lodged a request with the Russian authorities for the prompt provision of information, as well as for humanitarian consideration and fair and impartial treatment”,
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