MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has received in the Kremlin Akie Abe, the widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russ...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has received in the Kremlin Akie Abe, the widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has told reporters.
"Vladimir Putin has received in the Kremlin Akie Abe - the widow of Japan’s assassinated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - who is now in Moscow," the Kremlin spokesman said.
Abe was assassinated on July 8, 2022. 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami shot the former Japanese prime minister in the back twice as the latter spoke at an election rally on a street in the city of Nara, southwest of Japan's main island of Honshu. Abe was flown to a hospital by helicopter, and underwent a blood transfusion. Doctors worked for hours to save his life, but the former premier could not be saved.
Abe and Putin had warm and friendly relations. They met 27 times in total, and were known to talk to each other like old friends do. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in 2020 - after Abe left his post - that the relations between the two leaders were "truly friendly, mutually respectful and based on personal fondness and liking."
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