UPDATE ON UKRAINE AND RUSSIA WAR
Japan's Prime minister on a surprise visit to Ukraine.
Yesterday, we informed you of the Visit of China's President to Ukraine and also gave highpoints of what he is going there to discuss.
Today it's Japan.
Japan's prime minister is on his way to Ukraine for a surprise trip while Chinese President Xi Jinping is in the middle of a state visit to Russia. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday that Fumio Kishida is visiting Kyiv for summit talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — a move that had been anticipated to take place before Japan hosts leaders of the Group of Seven in May. Kishida's trip makes him the second Asian leader to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded, after Indonesian President Joko Widodo went there last June.
Xi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss the deepening of economic and political cooperation, as well as the war in Ukraine, during the Chinese leader's three-day visit to Moscow. Xi and Putin were holding discussions for hours on Monday during the first day of the Moscow trip. The U.K. held a meeting with more than 40 nations to discuss ways to provide extra support for war crimes investigations in Ukraine, according to a British readout.
The meeting was hosted by U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and the Netherlands Minister for Justice and Security Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius. Ahead of the meeting, the U.K. proposed funding to offer mental health care for witnesses of war crimes, send U.K. experts to train International Criminal Court investigators and help those ICC workers gather evidence of potential crimes. The meeting follows ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over potential crimes in Ukraine.
