G7 Leaders in Japan pledged to increase punishments for Russia’s 15-month invasion of Ukraine on Friday. Days before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the Group of Seven summit in person on Sunday.
“Our support for Ukraine will not waver,” the G7 leaders said in a statement released after closed-door meetings, vowing “to stand together against Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.”
“Russia started this war and can end this war,” they said.
Zelenskyy will be making his furthest trip from his war-torn country as leaders prepare to unveil new sanctions on Russia for its invasion. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, confirmed on national television that Zelenskyy would attend the summit.
“We were sure that our president would be where Ukraine needed him, in any part of the world, to solve the issue of stability of our country,” Danilov said Friday. “There will be very important matters decided there, so physical presence is a crucial thing to defend our interests.”
Ukraine Crisis the main agenda of the summit
Putin’s nuclear threats against Ukraine and North Korea’s months-long missile tests. Along with China’s rapidly developing nuclear arsenal has echoed Japan’s efforts. To make nuclear disarmament the summit’s main issue. On Friday, world leaders visited a memorial park honouring the tens of thousands who perished in the world’s first atomic weapon detonation during a war.
Prior to the announcement, under the condition of anonymity. The U.S. official stated that the U.S. portion of the actions would blacklist approximately 70 Russian and non-Russian entities involved in Russia’s defence production. And sanction over 300 people, organisations, aircraft, and vessels.
The official added that the other G7 nations would take similar actions to further isolate Russia. And reduce its capacity to wage war in Ukraine. Details were anticipated to emerge over the course of the weekend summit.
Friday morning, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, told reporters. That the European Union was focusing on closing loopholes and restricting trade in Russian diamonds.