Top diplomats will talk with Ukraine's foreign minister at the G7 meeting in Canada

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are gathering Ukraine’s overseas curate successful Canada arsenic Ukraine tries to fend disconnected relentless Russian aerial attacks that person brought rolling blackouts crossed the state up of winter

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario -- Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are gathering Ukraine's overseas curate connected Wednesday arsenic Ukraine tries to fend disconnected relentless Russian aerial attacks that person brought rolling blackouts crossed the country up of winter.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition enactment successful a G7 league connected Ukraine and defence cooperation.

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand is hosting the gathering successful confederate Ontario arsenic tensions emergence betwixt the U.S. and accepted allies similar Canada implicit defence spending, commercialized and uncertainty implicit President Donald Trump’s ceasefire program successful Gaza and efforts to extremity the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said helium wants to bid 25 Patriot aerial defence systems from the United States. Combined rocket and drone strikes connected the powerfulness grid person coincided with Ukraine’s frantic efforts to clasp backmost a Russian battlefield propulsion aimed astatine capturing the eastbound stronghold of Pokrovsk.

Canada announced further sanctions connected 13 radical and 11 entities, including respective progressive successful the improvement and deployment of Russia’s drone program.

Britain says it volition nonstop 13 cardinal pounds ($17 million) to assistance spot up Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure arsenic wintertime approaches and Russian attacks intensify. The wealth volition spell toward repairs to power, heating and h2o supplies and humanitarian enactment for Ukrainians.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, who made the announcement earlier the meeting, said Russian President Vladimir Putin “is trying to plunge Ukraine into acheronian and the acold arsenic wintertime approaches” but the British enactment volition assistance support the lights and heating on.

Canada precocious made a akin announcement.

The two-day gathering successful Niagara-on-the-Lake, adjacent the U.S. border, comes aft Trump ended commercialized talks with Canada due to the fact that the Ontario provincial authorities ran an anti-tariff advertisement successful the U.S. that upset him. That followed a outpouring of acrimony, since abated, implicit the Republican president’s insistence that Canada should go the 51st U.S. state.

Anand volition person a gathering with Rubio, but she noted that a antithetic curate leads the U.S. commercialized file. The U.S. president has placed greater precedence connected addressing his grievances with different nations’ commercialized policies than connected collaboration with G7 allies.

The G7 comprises Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Anand besides invited the overseas ministers of Australia, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Ukraine to the meeting, which began Tuesday.

Putin has tried to warrant Russia's onslaught connected Ukraine by saying it was needed to support civilians successful eastbound Ukraine — a mendacious assertion the U.S. had predicted helium would marque arsenic a pretext for his invasion.

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