The Russian envoy is set to skip the annual Hiroshima peace ceremony, resulting in no Russian representative for the fifth consecutive year since the invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
The Russian envoy will not attend the annual peace ceremony in Hiroshima.
This marks the fifth straight year without a Russian representative, following the start of the Ukraine invasion in 2022.
The ceremony commemorates the atomic bombings and takes place each August.
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