Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida started a shock go to to Ukraine early on Tuesday, hours after Chinese language President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day go to.
The Japanese chief, the primary to go to a warzone since World Conflict Two, will meet President Volodymyr Zelensky within the Ukrainian capital in a summit that straight coincides with longtime rivals holding crunch talks in Moscow.
Mr Kishida will present his “absolute rejection of Russia’s one-sided change to the established order by invasion and power,” throughout his go to to Ukraine, the Japanese International Ministry stated in saying his journey to Kyiv.
Japan, which has territorial disputes over islands with each China and Russia, is especially involved concerning the shut relationship between Beijing and Moscow, which have performed joint army workout routines close to Japan’s coasts.
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Russian cruise missiles destroyed in strike in drone strike on practice in Crimea
Ukraine’s defence ministry stated on Monday that an explosion in Dzhankoi within the north of the Crimean peninsula destroyed Russian cruise missiles supposed to be used by the Kremlin’s Black Sea fleet.
It stated the missiles, designed to be launched from floor ships, had an operational vary of greater than 2,500km (1,550 miles) on land and 375km at sea.
“An explosion in Dzhankoi metropolis within the north of briefly occupied Crimea destroyed Russian Kalibr-KN cruise missiles as they have been being transported by rail,” the ministry’s principal intelligence directorate stated in social media posts.
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