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G7 leaders agreed that Putin was not winning the war, Zelensky says
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Prime minister Keir Starmer has hit out at a Russian shooting incident as “reckless”.
On Tuesday a Russian frigate fired warning shots at a UK-registered yacht sailed by a retired British couple who described the incident as “scary”.
“What happened in the Channel was deeply concerning. It was reckless,” he told the BBC on Wednesday from the G7 in France.
G7 leaders were in an upbeat mood after Tuesday’s talks, as Donald Trump said he had a “very good” meeting with president Volodymyr Zelensky and called on Russia to make peace with Ukraine.
President Trump said he would do “whatever I can” to end the war and said Russia “should make a deal”.
In a joint statement this morning, the G7 leaders commended Ukraine for its “progress on the battlefield in recent months”.
“To support and accelerate this new momentum, we agree to increase the delivery of air defence capacities, additional systems and interceptors, and long-range capabilities,” the statement read.
There needs to be more NATO military forces stationed in the Baltic countries, Latvia’s Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said on Wednesday.
“We need more boots on the ground and we need more Allied Forces presence not only in Latvia, in the Baltics and the eastern flank and that is a necessary part,” Kulbergs said in a joint press conference with NATO chief Mark Rutte.
Ukraine’s military has denied Russian claims of a Ukrainian drone strike on a bus carrying children in Russia’s Bryansk region.
Other Nato members have increased their contributions to the alliance’s crisis forces to fill many of the gaps left by US cuts to its commitments, chief Mark Rutte said on Wednesday.
The US told its allies last month that it had decided to shrink the pool of national military capabilities committed to the transatlantic alliance in a crisis, raising urgent questions as leaders prepare for a Nato summit in Ankara on July 7-8.
“There are … areas that require more work but the overall picture is looking good,” Rutte told reporters at Nato headquarters in Brussels ahead of a meeting of alliance defence ministers on Thursday. He did not provide further details.
Germany and Poland were set to sign a new defense agreement Wednesday, putting aside their complicated past to strengthen European military cooperation at a time of heightened tension with Russia and growing uncertainty over U.S. engagement in Europe.
Relations between the two neighbors in recent years have become more pragmatic in the wake of Russia’s full‑scale war on Ukraine in 2022 and the coming to power of a liberal government in Poland in 2023.
As the U.S. weighs a partial drawdown of its military presence in Europe, Poland is keen to ensure that major European allies take a greater role in defending the continent’s eastern flank.
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Ukraine’s military has struck the FINA A tanker in the Black Sea, which it described as part of Russian “shadow fleet”, the Ukrainian General Staff said in a post on Telegram on Wednesday.
The General Staff said that the target was successfully struck and the extent of the damage was still undergoing an assessment.
It added that Ukrainian forces also struck a road bridge across the North Crimean Canal near the settlement of Stavky and a road bridge near Voinka in the occupied part of the Kherson region.
Ukraine has won key pledges of further support for its fight against Russia from world leaders attending the Group of Seven summit in France, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday.
The leaders of the world’s leading industrial economies promised to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and ensure its energy supply, as well as step up international economic pressure on Moscow, as Kyiv’s fight against Russia’s all-out invasion stretches into its fifth year with no end in sight.
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