The Japanese Prime Minister did not mention at the ceremony in Hiroshima who dropped the nuclear bomb on the city. At the same time, the Japanese condemned RussiaJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not say during his address that the bombing was carried out by the United States.
On this day 79 years ago, it is believed that more than 100 thousand lives were lost due to the atomic bomb. The city turned to ashes. The horrors and suffering suffered by Hiroshima and Nagasaki must not be repeated.
The mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, at a ceremony in memory of the victims of the bombing, quoted the first President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who spoke about the need for peace, renunciation of the arms race and nuclear disarmament. At the same time, he criticized Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
