Kishida’s surprise trip to Ukraine comes just hours after he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida traveled to kyiv on Tuesday, where he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Japanese media reports.
Japanese public television, NHK, showed Kishida on a train leaving Poland for the Ukrainian capital.
Kishida’s surprise trip to Ukraine comes just hours after he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
Kishida, who will chair the G7 summit in May, he is the only leader of those countries who had not yet visited Ukraine.
Japan has been in tune with the other nations that make up the G7, sanctioning Russia and supporting Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Source: Observadora
