On Sunday, Russia qualified the presence of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 summit as a “propaganda show”, reports AFP with reference to the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“The G7 leaders invited the leader of the Kyiv regime, which they control, to a meeting and turned the event in Hiroshima into a propaganda show,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The same press release condemns the fact that “the main outcome of the summit was a series of hateful anti-Russian and anti-Chinese statements.”

The “Big Seven” became “an incubator for the development, under the leadership of the Anglo-Saxons, of some destructive initiatives that threaten world stability,” concludes the Russian Foreign Ministry, reports Agerpres.

G7 leaders at the Hiroshima summit promised long-term support to Ukraine

Leaders of the world’s richest democracies, members of the G7, said on Sunday they would not abandon their support for Ukraine, warning Russian President Vladimir Putin, who claimed the town of Bakhmut was captured by Russian forces at the time. Kyiv rejected it.

The G7 (G7) summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima took a dramatic turn this weekend with the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, who flew in on a French government plane to call for more support against the Russian invasion.

Zelensky, who laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing of the city, noted that photos of the destruction of Hiroshima during World War II reminded him of Bakhmut and other destroyed Ukrainian cities.

He also said at the press conference that there are still soldiers in Bakhmut and that the city has not been captured by Russia.

Earlier, he told reporters at the summit that the city, which had been at the center of fighting in recent months, had been destroyed. “This is a tragedy. There is nothing in this place,” Zelenskyi said. “Many dead Russians” remained, he added.

On the final day of the three-day G7 summit, US President Joe Biden announced the provision of a $375 million military aid package to Ukraine, including artillery and armored vehicles.

He told Zelensky that the US is doing everything possible to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities against Russia. “Together with the entire G7, we stand behind Ukraine, and I promise that we will not go anywhere,” said Biden.

Other leaders of the G7, which includes the United States, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and Canada, supported Biden’s statements.

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