Today is day 455 of the war in Ukraine. Follow the latest war news in this live blog.
Prime Minister: Japan will not become a member of NATO, but an office in Japan is possible
Japan has no plans to join NATO, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told parliament on Wednesday. However, he confirmed that NATO intends to open a liaison office in Japan. His government has not yet made a decision on the matter.
Earlier this month, Japan’s ambassador to the United States said the Western military pact wants to open an office in Tokyo to facilitate consultations in the region. Such an institution would be the first in Asia for NATO.
Beijing and Moscow want to cooperate on a “new level”
Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Wednesday that China is ready to work with Russia to advance their pragmatic cooperation in various areas and take it to a “new level,” according to Reuters.
Pragmatic cooperation between China and Russia has shown “good” development, and the volume of investment between the two is also increasing, Li told Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting in Beijing. Mishustin was the highest-ranking Russian official to visit the Chinese capital since Moscow sent thousands of its troops to Ukraine in February 2022.
This was the state of things on Wednesday 24 May
Moscow claims to have repulsed an attack led by militia support Ukraine, which has led to a series of chaotic fighting in Russia’s Belgorod region over the past two days.
THE Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrived in China for a visit to President Xi Jinping and a series of infrastructure and commercial appointments.
THE training of Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets has begun in Poland, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said.
THE Pivdennyi port of Ukraine it was shut down because Russia does not allow ships, effectively excluding the port from a deal allowing for safe exports of grain from the Black Sea, a Ukrainian official said.
A Moscow court extended the detention from Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovichdetained in Russia at the end of March on espionage charges.
THE US President Joe Biden elected a new leader for the National Security Agency and US Cyber ​​Command, a joint function that oversees much of America’s cyber warfare and defense.
Ukrainian troops they still control the southwestern border of the city of Bachmut and fighting in the city itself has decreased, said Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the marines on the Vuhledar-Maryinka defense line in the Donetsk region, as part of the celebrations of the National Day of Ukrainian Marines.
The General Staff of Ukraine said Russia on Monday 20 missile attacks conducted over Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv Oblasts using cruise missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles and S-300 surface-to-air missiles. Russia is also said to have carried out 48 air strikes with Shahed drones and up to 90 strikes against civilian and military targets with multiple launch missiles.
A Senior Russian official facing sanctions in the West over Moscow’s war on Ukraine, he has visited Saudi Arabia and held talks with his counterpart in the kingdom.
Germany is exploring possibilities to provide support to a coalition of countries intending to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighters.
Ukraine is investigating Belarus’ alleged role in the military deportation of children from the territories occupied by the Russians.
dhis live blog is based on reports from our correspondents and editors from BNR, The Guardian, ANP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, BBC, CNBC and Agence France-Presse. BNR also uses online reports from news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti (Russia) and Belta (Belarus). Since the reporting of these agencies is not verifiable and cannot be qualified as independent, in these cases the origin of the report is explicitly stated.
Source: BNR
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