The protest was conveyed following a meeting between Lyudmila Vorobyova, the director of the ministry’s third department, and the Japanese diplomat, TASS reported.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry emphasized that during discussions on bilateral relations, they firmly expressed their opposition to Japan's intention to redirect funds from what they described as "illegally frozen" Russian assets to provide loans as part of the Group of Seven’s financial aid package to Ukraine.
The ministry further condemned Tokyo’s initiative, asserting that it amounts to complicity in Ukraine's crimes and warned that such actions will entail severe retaliatory measures. These responses, they stated, could include targeted measures against Japan’s most sensitive interests.
The responsibility for further deterioration of bilateral relations will lie entirely with the Japanese government," the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized.
Previously, Ukraine's Ministry of Finance announced that Kiev would receive about $3 billion from Tokyo under the ERA (Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration) emergency lending program, funded by income from frozen Russian assets.