Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Hiroshima to join the Group of Seven leaders summit in the atomic-bombed city, multiple reports said Friday, on a trip that would be rich in symbolism amid Russian nuclear saber-rattling in the bloody war against its neighbor.
The Ukrainian leader was expected to arrive in Japan on Saturday — his first visit to Asia since Russia invaded his country in February last year — and attend the G7 summit the following day. It is understood that Zelenskyy will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who in March became the final G7 leader to visit Kyiv for a meeting with the wartime president.
A senior Ukrainian government official appeared to confirm the visit to Hiroshima.