By: Priyali Dhingra
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Kyiv for a surprise visit on Tuesday at the heels of Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Kishida is expected to offer continuing support for Ukraine during his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, and Putin and Xi discussed Beijing's peace plan for Ukraine. These meetings come amid the ongoing 13-month-old battle at Ukraine's border regions, including in the eastern town of Bakhmut, where both sides have launched counter-offensives and are engaged in fierce fighting, as per reports.