“Given the situation with coronavirus inside our country and abroad, Premier Abe will not be present at this ceremony,” Tass quoted Uyama as saying.
According to him, at the moment there is no information whether any of the Japanese diplomats in Moscow received an invitation.
Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he would not be able to attend the parade on June 24 because of the quarantine regime in the country.