Surprise visit to Kyiv. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is traveling to Ukraine to meet Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, March 21, Tokyo announced. He goes to him “to convey its respect for the courage and perseverance of the Ukrainian people who defend their homeland under their command, as well as the unfailing solidarity and support for Ukraine from Japan and the G7”, Japanese diplomacy said in a statement. Fumio Kishida was the only leader member of the group not to have been to kyiv since the start of the conflict in February 2022. Follow our live.
Discussions continue between Russia and China. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are due to meet on Tuesday for official talks on the second day of the Chinese president’s visit to Russia. “I know that you (…) have a fair and balanced position on the most pressing international issues”the Russian president said on Monday.
The United States criticizes the Beijing peace plan. “The world should not be fooled by any tactical decision by Russia, backed by China or any other country, to freeze the conflict on its own terms,” launched the US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken. For its part, kyiv on Monday urged Xi Jinping to “use its influence on Moscow to put an end to the war of aggression”.
New means for the International Criminal Court. The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday obtained more financial and technical means from some forty countries gathered in London to continue its investigations in Ukraine, three days after issuing an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin.