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KANANASKIS: Group of Seven leaders minus President Donald Trump connected Tuesday vowed greater enactment for Ukraine, arsenic the United States blocked a associated telephone to unit Russia, which is ramping up attacks connected its neighbor.
The US president had been owed to conscionable astatine the G7 acme successful Canada with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, with whom helium has had a volatile relationship, but flew backmost to Monday implicit the Israel-Iran conflict.
Zelensky met the different leaders astatine a distant lodge successful the Canadian Rockies hours aft Russia deed Kyiv with 1 of the worst bombardments since it invaded successful February 2022, sidesplitting astatine slightest 10 radical successful the capital.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Zelensky and announced Can$2 cardinal ($1.47bn) of subject support, including drones and helicopters, for Ukraine.
“This underscores the value of lasting successful full solidarity with Ukraine,“ Carney told him, calling for “maximum unit against Russia.”
But the Group of Seven acme was incapable to contented a associated connection connected Ukraine arsenic “the Americans wanted to h2o it down,“ a Canadian authoritative said connected information of anonymity.
The United States objected to connection condemning Russia, saying it wanted to sphere its relation arsenic a mediator with President Vladimir Putin, the authoritative said.
“That is not the presumption that we take, and the different six countries who person besides agreed to enactment beardown connection successful that declaration,“ she said.
Carney volition alternatively enactment retired a connection connected Ukraine arsenic seat of the acme alternatively than from each the leaders, the authoritative said.
In Washington, the State Department separately condemned the Russian strikes and offered condolences to the victims’ families.
US waits connected pressure
Carney besides joined Britain successful tightening sanctions connected Russia’s alleged shadiness fleet of ships utilized to circumvent planetary sanctions connected its lipid sales.
“These sanctions onslaught close astatine the bosom of Putin’s warfare machine, choking disconnected his quality to proceed his barbaric warfare successful Ukraine,“ Prime Minister Keir Starmer said successful a statement.
US lawmakers person drafted a bundle of caller sanctions connected Russia but Trump has been hesitant to springiness his support, saying helium wants to sphere relations with Putin, whom helium spoke to by telephone connected the eve of the G7 summit.
Trump infamously berated Zelensky successful the Oval Office connected February 28, saying helium was ungrateful for US aid, but has since voiced disappointment that Putin has rebuffed a US connection for astatine slightest a impermanent ceasefire.
Zelensky, his dependable choked with emotion, told Carney that the latest Russian onslaught was a “big tragedy” and it showed the request for allies’ enactment -- and made wide that helium inactive backed Trump-led calls for negotiations.
“It’s important for our soldiers to beryllium beardown successful the battlefield, to enactment beardown until Russia volition beryllium acceptable for the bid negotiations,“ Zelensky said.
“We are acceptable for the bid dialog -- unconditional ceasefire. For this we request pressure.”
French President Emmanuel Macron accused his Russian counterpart of exploiting planetary absorption connected the Middle East to transportation retired the deadly attack.
“It shows the implicit cynicism of President Putin,“ Macron told reporters astatine the summit.
Tough commercialized talks
The G7 -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States -- was holding its archetypal acme since the instrumentality to powerfulness of Trump, who openly questions longstanding US alliances.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remained to correspond the United States astatine the summit, wherever discussions person besides concentrated connected Trump’s attempts to radically overhaul the world’s trading system.
Trump has vowed to slap sweeping tariffs connected friends and foes alike connected July 9, though helium has postponed them once.
The US president, speaking to reporters connected his mode backmost from the summit, complained that the European Union was not yet offering a “fair deal” connected trade.
“We’re either going to marque a bully woody oregon they’ll conscionable wage immoderate we accidental they volition pay,“ helium said.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said she inactive hoped for a negotiated solution and that talks were “intense and demanding.”
Trump’s negotiators person already sealed a woody with Britain and, extracurricular of the G7, reached an statement to little tariffs with rival China.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said helium had “frank” discussions with Trump connected Monday but made wide the value of automobile exports to the world’s second-largest developed economy.
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