The meeting of the seven major industrialized countries, organized until Tuesday in Bavaria, is largely devoted to the situation in Ukraine, whose president must intervene this Monday by videoconference.
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What can he ask and what will be the response of the G7 leaders? Guest of the G7, this Monday, June 27, 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky must speak by videoconference in the middle of the morning during this meeting of the seven industrial powers which began on Sunday at the foot of the Bavarian Alps. He will speak at a key moment: for the first time in weeks, the Ukrainian capital was hit on Sunday morning by Russian missiles while fierce fighting continues in the east of the country, after five months of war in Ukraine.
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Faced with the reverses recorded by the Ukrainian army in the Donbass, Volodymyr Zelensky should not vary in his demands vis-à-vis the G7: more heavy weapons, in order to have parity of fire with the Russians, who are pounding relentlessly the eastern Ukraine; and a tightening of Western sanctions against Putin’s regime, to shake up Russia’s war machine. The Russian strikes on kyiv on Sunday June 26 provide the Ukrainian president with additional arguments to increase pressure on Westerners, moreover denounced as acts of “barbarityby US President Joe Biden.
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Olaf Scholz, organizer of this G7 in Bavaria, is accountable for the answers that will be given to Volodymyr Zelensky. The lukewarmness of his support for Ukraine in the early days of his term affected his popularity. The German Chancellor now insists on the unity of the allies to which “Putin did not expect“, he assures. And the leaders of the G7 know that Moscow is watching for the slightest sign of a crack in the Western camp. To support his message, Volodymyr Zelensky will also participate in the NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday.
On the first day of their exchanges, the seven industrialized countries (Germany, France, United States, Canada, Japan, Italy, Great Britain) announced to extend the sanctions against Moscow by decreeing an embargo on newly mined gold in Russia.