Norway has pledged to send half a dozen F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from the sidelines of the Nato summit in Washington, becoming the fourth country to promise to send the vital weaponry.
Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said the jets would be delivered later this year, according to the local newspaper Verdens Gang (VG). The total number of F-16s pledged is 86, though they will arrive over several years.
Meanwhile, the White House announced that Nato allies are set to promise a minimum of $40 billion (£31.2 billion) to Ukraine for the next calendar year during the summit in Washington.
The uptick in support comes after Russia launched one of its most fatal attacks across Ukraine on Monday, killing at least 33 in the capital and around a dozen elsewhere.
The Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv was among several medical facilities destroyed during that attack.
Local mayor Vitaliy Klitschko told The Independent that the attack showed Russia was guilty of “genocide”, while the United Nations refuted claims by Russia that they were not responsible for the attack.
Key points
- Nato allies to provide ‘minimum £31 billion’ to Ukraine in 2025
- Starmer backs Ukraine to fire British missile on mainland Russia
- Norway to donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
- Ukraine health ministry issues update on extent of damage to children’s hospital
- UN assessment suggests Ukraine children's hospital hit by Russian missile
Nato to maintain channels to Moscow as it supports Ukraine, draft communique says
15:44
Tom Watling
Nato allies pledged to support Ukraine on an “irreversible path” to integration on Wednesday while remaining willing to maintain channels of communication with Moscow to prevent escalation of the war, according to a draft joint communique seen by Reuters.
The draft also called China a decisive enabler of Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and said Beijing continues to pose systemic challenges to Europe and to security.
Ukraine’s Zelensky says he cannot predict Trump’s actions if elected
15:00
Tom Watling
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he could not predict what Donald Trump would do if he regains the US presidency in November, but the whole world, including Russian leader Vladimir Putin, was awaiting the outcome of the ballot.
Mr Zelensky, speaking in Washington as world leaders gather for a Nato summit, said he hoped Mr Trump would not quit the 75-year-old alliance and that the United States would keep supporting Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion.
“I don’t know (him) very well,” Mr Zelensky said of Mr Trump.
He said he had “good meetings” with him during Mr Trump’s first presidency but said that was before the Russian invasion in 2022.
“I can’t tell you what he will do, if he will be the president of the United States. I don’t know.”
Germany’s Scholz highlights importance of Nato support for Ukraine
14:35
Tom Watling
Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz underlined the importance of Nato support for Ukraine, saying every member state would have to do its best and acknowledging a special role for Germany as the biggest European member of the alliance.
“Germany is the largest country in Europe within the NATO alliance. This gives us a very special responsibility and I can say very clearly here we will, I will, fulfil this responsibility,” Scholz said on Wednesday at the sidelines of a Nato leaders summit in Washington.
Ukraine tells Hungary peace deal ‘cannot be based on Russia’s narratives’
14:17
Tom Watling
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has said he informed his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto on battlefield updates and preparations for the second international summit on peace in Ukraine.
“In this context, I emphasized that no peace initiatives can be based on Russia’s narratives,” he said on X.
The meeting follows Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s visits to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing for talks that he described as a “peace mission”. Ukraine said talks in Moscow were not coordinated with Kyiv.
Met with my Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) July 10, 2024
I briefed Peter on the situation on the frontline as well as the preparations for the second Peace summit. In this context, I emphasized that no peace initiatives can be based on Russia’s narratives.
The recent Russian attack… pic.twitter.com/3TZ9RXF311
New Zealand announce £2.8m weapons package to Ukraine
13:50
Tom Watling
New Zealand have announced a £2.8 million weapons package to Ukraine, focusing on drones and military medical needs.
New Zealand’s military contributions to Ukraine total 19 million, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
New Zealand announced a new military aid package for Ukraine valued at NZD 6 million ($3,68 million).
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) July 10, 2024
The package includes allocation of $2.45 million for the Drone Coalition within the #UDCG and $1,23 million for the military medical needs.
Despite the significant distance… pic.twitter.com/fWu03TP3NM
Kyiv officials revise death toll from Monday’s attacks down to 33
13:45
Tom Watling
The Kyiv Military Administration responsible for the protection of the Ukrainian capital has revised down its death toll from the city-wide Russian attack on Monday.
Earlier, we reported that the administration had updated the toll to 34 fatalities. That has now been revised down to 33.
They have not provided details as to why the toll has been amended.
Nato allies to provide ‘minimum £31 billion’ to Ukraine in 2025
13:39
Tom Watling
Nato allies are set to announce their intention to “provide a minimum baseline funding of $40 billion” (£31.2 billion) to Ukraine for the next calendar, the White House has announced.
It is believed the announcement will be made during the Nato summit in Washington, which started yesterday and finishes on Thursday.
The US will contribute to this pledge using “funds already appropriated by Congress in the national security supplemental, which President Biden signed into law in April”.
In April, Congress belatedly passed a $61bn weapons package for Ukraine seven months after it was initially proposed.
You can view the full White House statement here.
Norway to donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
13:21
Tom Watling
Norway will donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, daily Verdens Gang (VG) has reported, citing the Norwegian prime minister at the Nato summit in Washington.
Deliveries are planned to begin in 2024, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said, according to VG.
"We plan to deliver during 2024... Norway has been participating in the training of Ukrainian fighter pilots in Denmark since the fall, and Norway will support the training in the future," Mr Stoere said.
EU welcomes one year roaming extension between EU and Ukraine
13:00
Tom Watling
The European Commission on Wednesday said it welcomed the one year extension roaming between the European Union and Ukraine has been extended for another year
“In times of war, a phone line is a lifeline, connecting people who sought refuge in Europe to those who stayed on the front”, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said on social media platform X.
It is the fifth extension of a voluntary agreement between 22 European and seven Ukrainian telecommunications operators, ensuring that Ukrainian refugees can stay connected across borders for another twelve months, the Commission said in a statement.
I welcome the extension of roaming between the EU and Ukraine for another year.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) July 10, 2024
In times of war, a phone line is a lifeline, connecting people who sought refuge in Europe to those who stayed on the front.
We stand with the people of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/PEgBo19Few
US claims to bust ‘Russian bot farm’ spreading propaganda on X
12:30
Tom Watling
One dead and three injured in Russian strike on southern Ukraine
12:00
Tom Watling
At least one person has been killed and three injured in a Russian strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, the state emergency service has reported.
In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, they wrote: “As a result of an enemy attack in the morning in Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a man was killed and three more people were injured.
“As a result of the shelling, several fires broke out, and dry grass in the open area caught fire.
Rescuers extinguished all fires.”
Через ранкову ворожу атаку у Нікополі, що на Дніпропетровщині, загинув чоловік, ще троє людей отримали поранення.
— DSNS.GOV.UA (@SESU_UA) July 10, 2024
Внаслідок обстрілів виникло декілька пожеж, також загорілася суха трава на відкритій території.
Рятувальники ліквідували всі загорання. pic.twitter.com/Xch3rWQnpc
Hungarian opposition leader delivers aid to damaged Kyiv children's hospital
11:40
Tom Watling
Hungarian opposition politician Peter Magyar, the main challenger to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, delivered aid on Wednesday to the Kyiv children’s hospital hit during Russian airstrikes this week.
Magyar’s Tisza party raised about 15 million forints ($33,000) and collected medical supplies and food donated by Hungarians.
“This was a sudden decision after we saw the brutal Russian missile attack,” Magyar told reporters before leaving for Kyiv.
A UN rights mission said on Tuesday there was a “high likelihood” Kyiv’s main children’s hospital took a direct hit from a Russian missile. The Kremlin said, without providing evidence, the hospital was hit by Ukrainian anti-missile fire.
Orban, a critic of Western military aid to Ukraine and the European Union leader with the warmest relations with Russia, se visited Kyiv and Moscow last week as part of what he calls a “peace mission”. His meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin drew a strong rebuke from some European allies.
“The prime minister is allowed to travel the world and pretend that he is creating peace but we believe in actions instead of flying around the world three times. We are different,” Magyar said.
Magyar, whose party won nearly 30 per cent of the Hungarian vote in a European Parliament election in June, said Orban should have visited Kyiv sooner but that one reason for the delay was a disagreement between Kyiv and Budapest over the rights of Ukraine‘s Hungarian minority.
Magyar said he agreed with the government that no arms shipments to Ukraine should go via Hungary or with its help, as this could make Ukraine‘s Hungarian community a target, but other countries had the sovereign right to send arms to Ukraine.
We have some more info on the children’s hospital strike
11:28
Tom Watling
The Ukrainian Ministry of Health has issued The Independent a written update on the extent of damage inflicted on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital by a Russian missile attack on Monday.
As a result of the rocket-terrorist attack on the ‘Okhmatdyt’ hospital, the toxicology corps with the department of chronic and acute intoxications (where children undergo dialysis) was completely destroyed. Two people died, more than 50 were injured. In the old surgical building, almost all the windows were broken, significant damage was noted to two surgical and two somatic departments, the intensive care unit and the operating unit. In the new, recently built building, 12 departments were damaged, including 8 surgical departments, 5 oncological departments, two intensive care units, an operating room, and a radiology and radiation therapy department. A part of the country’s only oncology and haematology laboratory was also damaged.
The building of the Center for Children’s Cardiology and Cardiosurgery was also damaged - the windows were blown out by the blast wave, but there were no victims. In addition, a four-story building of a private medical centre in the Dnipro district of Kyiv was partially destroyed as a result of a repeated rocket attack. According to the KMVA, 9 people died and 5 were injured.
Rescue operations are completed.
During the rocket attack, several operations continued in ‘Okhmatdyt’ and the Children’s Cardio Center. We know of cases of injuries to children who were operated on by splinters of glass broken by an explosion. Thanks to the professionalism of our doctors, their lives are no longer in danger.
‘Okhmatdyt’ is the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine and it suffered great destruction. The full amount of damages is calculated. However, we kept the most valuable thing - the doctors. All of them are ready to work in other medical facilities until the time of renewal in ‘Okhmatdyt’. Therefore, we do not foresee a deterioration in the provision of children’s medical care in Kyiv.
Fundraiser for Kyiv children’s hospital surpasses £5.5m
11:19
Tom Watling
A fundraiser set up to finance the rebuilding of the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital destroyed by Russian cruise missiles on Monday has surpassed £5.5 million.
It is the most amount of money raised by United24, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s official fundraising platform, in just 48 hours.
You can donate yourself to the fundraiser here.
Starmer backs Ukraine to fire British missile on mainland Russia
11:09
Tom Watling
Sir Keir Starmer has backed Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow long-range missiles to strike mainland Russia so long as it is for “defensive purposes”.
The newly-elected British prime minister made the call on the sidelines of a Nato summit in Washington, his first of his premiership.
Former UK foreign secretary David Cameron gave Ukraine the green light to use Storm Shadows on mainland Russia after the Kremlin launched a cross-border attack on the northeast Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
Sir Keir’s comments suggest not only that support for Ukraine is bipartisan but that the Labour administration is keen to continue backing Kyiv in a similar fashion to their predecessors.
Teenage survivor of Russian strike at Kyiv hospital recalls first thought after bombing
11:00
Tom Watling
We have some photos from the frontline - Russian MoD
10:40
Tom Watling
The Russian Ministry of Defence has posted images of its soldiers somewhere in occupied Ukraine.
Modi receives Russia’s highest civilian award for promoting bilateral ties
10:20
Tom Watling
Why does it take Russia bombing a children’s hospital to make us care about Ukraine?
10:00
Tom Watling
Death toll in Kyiv rises to 33
09:40
Tom Watling
The death toll from Russia’s multiple attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday has risen to 33, the state emergency service has announced.
It comes after they found the body of a girl born in 2006 buried beneath the rubble of a destroyed building in the northwest Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv.
Two buildings were destroyed in that district, including the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital. The girl’s body was discovered in the second destroyed building.
Search and rescue operations in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv have been completed. Rescuers found the body of a girl born in 2006.
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) July 10, 2024
On 8 July, Russian attack on Kyiv resulted in 33 deaths, incl 5 children. 121 ppl were injured, 10 of them children
State Emergency pic.twitter.com/0D2KAC2RTu
Russia attacks energy facility in Ukraine's Rivne region, national grid operator says
09:20
Tom Watling
Russia-launched drones attacked an energy facility in Ukraine‘s Rivne region, national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Wednesday.
Fire has been localized at the site and no casualties were reported, according to Rivne regional governor Oleksandr Koval.
The attack caused temporary power cuts for consumers in the region, Ukrenergo said.
Russian attack on Odesa region kills two, damages port infrastructure, governor says
09:00
Tom Watling
A Russian missile attack on the Odesa region killed two people and damaged port infrastructure on Wednesday, the region’s governor said.
The attack damaged warehouses, trucks and a civilian ship, the governor said. One person was also injured, he said.
Here are the latest photos from Ukraine
08:40
Tom Watling
Good morning.
Below are some of the latest photos coming out of Ukraine.
‘The whole room was covered in blood’: Inside the Russian missile strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital
08:20
Tom Watling
A hospital interrupts a teen's dialysis as Kyiv's bombardment shows the cost of improved war tactics
08:00
Arpan Rai
The sky was crystal clear as Oksana Femeniuk took her daughter to Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital for routine dialysis.
Around 10 a.m, air-raid sirens blared. Sixteen-year old Solomiia was undergoing the treatment that required her to sit still for up to five hours and could not be interrupted. Her mother had to flee to the hospital’s basement shelter without her.
Hurtling toward them at 700-800 kilometers (435-497 miles) per hour was a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, according to Ukraine’s security service, the United Nations and open-source investigators. Using painstaking trial and error, Russia has modified the weapon over the last year to defeat Ukraine’s air defense systems by flying at low altititude and hugging terrain, according to military analysts.
A hospital interrupts a teen's dialysis as Kyiv's bombardment shows the cost of improved war tactics
Biden seeks to quell domestic fears over his fitness with Nato address
07:29
Arpan Rai
Joe Biden sought to quell domestic concerns over his fitness for office on the world stage on Tuesday as he touted the strength of the NATO alliance and announced new steps to bolster Ukraine against Russian attacks, continuing his signature foreign policy achievement at a moment of crisis for his administration and re-election campaign.
75 years after 12 countries came together in Washington to sign a historic mutual defense pact in the wake of the Second World War, the president touted the alliance’s progress before leaders representing the 32 treaty signatories at the annual NATO leaders’ summit.
Speaking before an audience of NATO leaders, including newly-minted British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Biden said the North Atlantic Treaty, that the alliance birthed 75 years ago, is stronger and more vital than ever and promised it would continue to support Ukraine’s defense needs.
“We know Putin won’t stop at Ukraine, but make no mistake, Ukraine can and will stop Putin,” he said. The US and partner nations intend to provide Ukraine with five “strategic air defense systems” in the coming months and “dozens” of “tactical air defense systems”, Biden added.
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington DC:
Biden says Nato will send dozens of air defences to Ukraine
07:04
Arpan Rai
Joe Biden has announced another major air defence package for Ukraine, and said the war-hit nation’s allies will back Ukrainian forces for as long as needed.
“The United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Italy will provide Ukraine with… five additional strategic air defence systems,” Mr Biden said.
“In the coming months, the United States and our partners intend to provide Ukraine with dozens of additional tactical air defence systems. The United States will make sure that when we export critical air defence interceptors, Ukraine goes to the front of the line,” the US president said in Washington as Nato summit began.
The outgoing Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance had signed the Stinger contract.
“There is no way to provide strong defence without a strong defense industry,” Mr Stoltenberg said while announcing the contract.
Why does it take Russia bombing a children’s hospital to make us care about Ukraine?
07:00
Alexander Butler
Football fan Starmer will have to rely on notes from officials to keep up with England game
06:39
Arpan Rai
Sir Keir Starmer will need to rely on notes from officials to keep up to date with England’s Euro 2024 semi final against the Netherlands.
The new prime minister, an avid Arsenal fan, will be unable to watch one of his favourite players Bukayo Saka and his team mates take on the Dutch on Wednesday for the right to play Spain in Sunday’s final.
Worse still, Sir Keir’s phone will be taken off him for security reasons as he joins other Nato leaders for talks on Ukraine at the Nato summit in Washington DC.
It means that he will not be able to quietly check the score in the middle of the talks on how to deal with Vladimir Putin.
Starmer wants Nato to ‘lock in’ Trump proof military aid plan for Ukraine
06:21
Arpan Rai
Keir Starmer has indicated that he hopes the Nato summit in Washington will “Trump proof” aid to Ukraine to help it hold off Russia.
Speaking to journalists on his flight over to the summit in the USA, the new prime minister insisted that the defence and security of Britain and its allies will be his first priority.
But he again declined to give a timetable for when his “iron clad commitment” to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent will come into force.
His comments came as it emerged he had not been included in a discussion on air cover for Ukraine organised by the US government and including other allies.
But Sir Keir made it clear in the press briefing that he believes the summit over the next few days will “lock in” financial aid to Ukraine for its war effort.
Biden hosts Nato members in Washington as he looks for reprieve from campaign pressures
06:00
Alexander Butler
Russia allows Indian recruits to leave its military after Modi-Putin talks
05:58
Arpan Rai
Russia has “broadly agreed” to discharge all Indian citizens working in its military following a meeting between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
India’s foreign ministry last month demanded a “verified stop” on the recruitment of its citizens allegedly “misled” into serving in the Russian army after two Indians were killed fighting in Ukraine. Two Indian nationals had been killed in March as well.
Mr Modi brought up the matter during a private dinner hosted by Mr Putin on Monday, news agency PTI reported, citing unnamed sources. The Indian leader is on a two-day visit to Moscow.
Russia was expected to formally announce the decision to discharge all Indians from its military following official talks on Tuesday.
Kyiv hospital took direct hit from Russian missile, UN analysis suggests
05:00
Alexander Butler
There was a “high likelihood” that Kyiv’s major children’s hospital took a direct hit from a Russian missile during a series of airstrikes on Ukrainian cities, a UN human rights mission said.
“Analysis of the video footage and an assessment made at the incident site indicates a high likelihood that the children’s hospital suffered a direct hit rather than receiving damage due to an intercepted weapon system,” the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said.
Ukraine’s security service said it had unequivocal evidence the medical facility was hit by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile during the deadliest series of strikes in months, and published images of what it said were fragments of the weapon’s engine.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko issues plea for air defences
04:41
Arpan Rai
A Russian missile attack directed against Ukraine’s top children’s hospital was one of the most “painful” days in the country’s recent history, the mayor of Kyiv, where the missile hit, has told The Independent.
Vitali Klitschko, a former boxing world heavyweight champion turned politician, cut an uncharacteristically tired figure as he recounted Monday’s events.
At least 29 people have been killed and more than 90 wounded in the multiple attacks. Seven districts across the city, on both sides of the dividing Dnipro river, were hit. The attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital killed two and injured roughly 50 others.
“It is very painful to spend time with parents who can’t find their children, to see them crying,” he said. “We are still working in the rubble to try to find those that are missing. I hope we find them alive. There’s a lot still of people missing. I call it genocide. Genocide.”
Tom Watling reports:
Watch: Rubble removed after Kyiv children’s hospital hit in Russian attack
04:24
Arpan Rai
Ukrainian emergency services continued to clear the rubble yesterday after a Russian missile attack on a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
Russia hit the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital with a missile in broad daylight on Monday 8 July and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months.
Parents holding babies walked in the street outside the hospital, dazed and sobbing after the rare daylight aerial attack.
Windows had been smashed and panels ripped off, and hundreds of Kyiv residents were helping to clear debris.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who stopped in Poland before heading off to Washington for a Nato summit, put the death toll at 37, including three children.
Zelensky says can’t predict Trump’s actions if he is elected
04:10
Arpan Rai
Volodymyr Zelensky said he could not predict what Donald Trump would do if he regains the US presidency in November, but the whole world, including Russian leader Vladimir Putin, was awaiting the outcome of the ballot.
“I don’t know (him) very well,” Mr Zelensky said of Mr Trump, adding he had “good meetings” with him during the Republican candidate’s first presidency but said that was before Russia’s 2022 invasion.
“I can’t tell you what he will do, if he will be the president of the United States. I don’t know.”
The Ukrainian leader, speaking ahead of this week’s Nato summit, said he hoped Trump would not quit the 75-year-old Nato alliance and that America would keep supporting Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s more than two-year-old invasion.
“Everyone is waiting for November. Americans are waiting for November, in Europe, Middle East, in the Pacific, the whole world is looking towards November and, truly speaking, Putin awaits November too,” Mr Zelensky said.
“It is time to step out of the shadows, to make strong decisions... to act and not to wait for November or any other month.”
Mr Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the US presidential election in November, has frequently criticised the size of US military support for Ukraine - some $60bn since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 - and called Mr Zelensky “the greatest salesman ever.”
Kyiv says it has unequivocal evidence to prove children's hospital hit by Russian missile
04:00
Alexander Butler
The Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) has presented new evidence it says proves that Kyiv’s main children’s hospital had been directly hit by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile.
“The experts’ conclusions are unequivocal, it was a direct strike,” the SBU said on Telegram.
It shared images of a missile engine fragment it said was found at the site. The SBU added that analysis of trajectory and nature of damage caused prove the was a direct strike.
What is the Nato summit and why is it important for Ukraine?
03:55
Arpan Rai
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Nato counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world’s biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The three-day summit, which begins today, will focus on ways to reassure Ukraine of Nato’s enduring support and offer some hope to its war-weary citizens that their country might survive the biggest land conflict in Europe in decades.
Much of what Nato can do for Ukraine, and indeed for global security, is misunderstood. Often the alliance is thought of as the sum of all US relations with its European partners, from imposing sanctions and other costs on Russia to sending arms and ammunition.
But as an organization, its brief is limited to the defence by military means of its 32 member countries — the sacred Three Musketeers-like vow of all for one, one for all — and a commitment to help keep the peace in Europe and North America.
NATO allies commit to sending dozens of air defense systems to Ukraine, including four Patriots
15:51
Tom Watling
Japan must strengthen Nato ties to safeguard global peace, PM says
03:00
Alexander Butler
Russia’s deepening military cooperation with North Korea has underlined the need for Japan to forge closer ties with Nato, the country’s leader warned.
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida also expressed concern over Beijing’s alleged role in aiding Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
“The securities of the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific are inseparable, and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its deepened military cooperation with North Korea are strong reminders of that,” Mr Kishida said.
“Japan is determined to strengthen its cooperation with Nato and its partners,” he added.
Watch: Modi embraces Putin during Indian leader’s Russia visit
02:00
Alexander Butler
Why does it take Russia bombing a children’s hospital to make us care about Ukraine?
01:00
Alexander Butler
Modi under fire for bear-hugging ‘mass murderer’ Putin during Moscow summit
Tuesday 9 July 2024 23:30
Alexander Butler
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for greeting Vladimir Putin with his signature bear hug during their Moscow summit, even as he offered veiled criticism of Rus