World News | Japan’s Kishida to travel to Ukraine for talks with Zelensky

TOKYO, March 21 (AP) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will travel to Kiev early Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK showed Kishida on a train from Poland to Kiev. Kishida’s surprise visit to Ukraine comes hours after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

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Kishida, who will host the G7 summit in May, is the only G7 leader who has not visited Ukraine and is under domestic pressure to do so.

Japan has been sanctioning Russia in parallel with other G7 countries and supporting Ukraine in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Kishida is expected to continue to support Ukraine when he meets Zelensky. (Associated Press)

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