Ukrainian war, Zelensky in Parliament Tokyo: “Russia wants to use chemical weapons”

Ukrainian War, “I received information that Russia is preparing to use chemical weapons, including sarin gas.” Volodymyr Zelensky said this in his speech to the Japanese Parliament evoking the memory of the attack conducted in March 1995 by the Aum Shinrikyo sect with sarin gas in the Tokyo subway, which caused the death of 14 people and the wounding of thousands, according to reports from the Japan Times. Read also “To stop the tsunami of the Russian invasion, you have to ban trade and withdraw your companies from Russia”, Zelensky said in his speech asking to do more on the sanctions front, after thanking and praising him for being the first country in Asia to adopt them. In his speech, the Ukrainian president then made a reference to the devastating tsunami that, following the 2011 earthquake, forced hundreds of thousands of Japanese to leave their homes. “The Japanese people can probably understand the feeling of those who want to return to their homes, where they have lived for so long,” he said, referring to the millions of Ukrainians who were forced from their homes by the Russian invasion and in many cases the country. “We need an international embargo on Russian oil and gas,” Zelensky stressed. “You were the first in Asia to have really started to put pressure on Russia to restore peace, to have supported the sanctions and I urge you to continue,” he said again, recalling that 121 children have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian forces began the invasion almost a month ago, on February 24th.