Why did you take 14% of Serbian territory, which was guaranteed by UN Charter and by UN resolution as well?

And it was happening just after the aggression against the Republic of Serbia, which was led by 19 NATO countries without permission of the Security Council of the United Nations.

Wasn't that an opening of a big Pandora's box? And at the end, actually, it was. And you cannot have this kind of double standards.

We do support territorial integrity of Ukraine, but we have this right to say, and even with that, we are saying we need to reach a peace.

And you are saying, well, we need to avoid, we need to avert any kind of wrong messages to the world.

But we have already had wrong messages.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tokyo “strongly protests” the visit, stating the islands are “inherently Japanese territory both historically and under international law.”

The long-standing territorial dispute has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a formal post-World War II peace treaty. Putin’s trip followed Russian naval drills in the Far East.