A man looks at a live broadcast of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivering a virtual address to Japan's Parliament in Tokyo on March 23, 2022. - AFP
TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday (March 23) urged Japan to dial up pressure on Russia, which he said was preparing to launch a chemical weapons attack on his country.
In his first address to an Asian country after a series of passionate speeches to a number of Parliaments in the West, including the United States Congress, Zelensky appealed to Japan to impose a complete trade embargo against Russia “to stop the tsunami of brutal invasion”.
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