Leaders of the G7 countries must urgently send Ukraine more military supplies if they want to be ‘partners, not observers’, Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.
and his counterparts from the US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy after they gathered in the luxury alpine resort of Schloss Elmau in Bavaria.
‘We need a powerful air defence – modern, fully effective – which can ensure complete protection against these missiles.‘And partners need to move faster if they are really partners, not observers. His calls were backed by Mr Johnson, who insisted the G7 remained united in support of Ukraine in the face of growing ‘fatigue’ around the world and underlined the need to help it beat Russia’s grain blockade.
‘And what’s really struck me in the last couple of days has been the amazing consistency of our resolve, the continuing unity of the G7.’He pledged £10 million to repair Ukraine’s war-torn railways in hopes of creating a land route to export grain and £1.5 million towards a testing process to identify whether grain sold by Russia was taken from Ukrainian farmers.