A claim has been raised that 90% of the weapons the Russian military is using in the war in Ukraine contain Japanese-made parts.
Vladyslav Vlasiuk, an adviser to the Ukrainian president in charge of sanctions policy against Russia, said in an interview with Kyodo News on the 28th (local time) that about 90% of the cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) the Russian military is using in its invasion of Ukraine include parts manufactured by Japanese corporations.
The weapon he cited as an example of using Japanese parts is the Russian military's KH-101 cruise missile. He claimed that electronic components from a major Japanese semiconductor corporation and a major Japanese electrical corporation were used in it.
He added that Japanese corporations' parts were also used in the drones Russia is mass-producing based on the Iranian "Shahed" drone, the loitering munition drone "Lancet," and the reconnaissance drone "Mohajer-6" provided by Iran.
Adviser Vlasiuk urged Japan to tighten export controls, saying the general-purpose civilian parts are suspected of having been rerouted through third countries and diverted for military use.
He noted that an analysis of missile or drone debris found parts manufactured by Japanese corporations, and that many of them are flowing into Russia via China or Central Asia.
Vlasiuk was found to have mentioned 13 Japanese corporations in the interview. However, those corporations responded with answers such as "cannot confirm," Kyodo News reported.