British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, meanwhile, called for additional efforts to support Ukraine at the G7 meeting. “We have to go further and faster,” she said on Thursday at the deliberations of the group of leading democratic industrial nations near Weissenhauser Strand in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. This means that Ukraine must be shown a clear path to procurement of NATO-standard military equipment.
Truss said of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s course that he was humiliating himself on the world stage. It was now necessary to ensure that he suffered a defeat in Ukraine that would prevent any further aggression.
Video: Preview of the G7 meeting
So far, the country attacked by Russia has mainly used equipment that was developed in the then Soviet Union. This also makes it difficult for the West to provide supplies of weapons and ammunition. During talks in Berlin on Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for the delivery of Western fighter jets and missile defense systems to defend his country against Russia.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Twitter that never since the end of the Cold War had the seven leading western industrialized countries faced a greater challenge than they are now. “Never have we been more united. Our shared values are our strength.”
Germany currently holds the G7 presidency. Other members are the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, whose Foreign Minister Baerbock had invited to Weissenhaus Castle in Schleswig-Holstein. The Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Moldova, Kuleba and Nicu Popescu, also attended the meeting on Friday morning. Popescu is there because there are fears that Ukraine’s small neighboring republic could be the next target of Russian President Putin.
Kuleba contradicted fears – also hinted at by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz – that supplying Ukraine with ever heavier weapons could lead to an escalation of the war and ultimately a nuclear war with Russia. “I actually don’t see the possibility that a nuclear war is on the table here, because that would be the last war, and for Russia too,” he said on Thursday evening on ZDF’s “Heute Journal”.
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