Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at the Group of Seven summit on Tuesday, securing new aid from host Canada for the war against Russia after U.S. President Donald Trump left early due to developments in the Middle East.
The G7 wealthy nations struggled to find unity over the conflict in Ukraine after Trump expressed support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and having imposed tariffs on many of the allies present.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa would provide C$2 billion ($1.47 billion) in new military assistance for Kyiv as well as impose new financial sanctions.
A Russian attack overnight on Kyiv and other cities that killed at least 16 people "underscores the importance of standing in total solidarity with Ukraine," Carney said.
Carney said when G7 leaders met for dinner on Monday before Trump left, they stressed the importance of using "maximum pressure against Russia" to force it to start serious peace talks.
Zelenskyy said he had told the G7 leaders that "diplomacy is now in a state of crisis" and said they need to continue calling on Trump "to use his real influence" to force an end to the war.
"Even if the American President is not putting enough pressure on Russia right now, the truth is that America still has the broadest global interests and the largest number of allies. All of them will need strong protection," he said in a post on his Telegram account.
Although Canada is one of Ukraine's most vocal defenders, its ability to help Kyiv is far outweighed by the United States, the largest arms supplier. Zelenskyy had said he hoped to talk to Trump about acquiring more weapons.
Canada dropped plans for the G7 to issue a strong statement on the war in Ukraine after resistance from the United States, a Canadian official told reporters.
When the summit ends later on Tuesday, Carney plans to issue a chair statement calling for more pressure on Russia through sanctions and saying the G7 backs U.S.-led peace efforts, two G7 sources said.
Canada holds the rotating G7 presidency this year. Other leaders do not need to sign off on G7 chair statements.
A European official said leaders had stressed to Trump their plans to be hard on Russia and Trump seemed impressed, though he does not like sanctions in principle.
Three European diplomats said they had heard signals from Trump that he wanted to raise pressure on Putin and consider a U.S. Senate bill drafted by Senator Lindsey Graham, but that he had not committed to anything.
"I am returning to Germany with cautious optimism that decisions will also be made in America in the coming days to impose further sanctions against Russia," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
G7 leaders agreed on six statements, about migrant smuggling, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, wildfires, transnational repression and quantum computing.
KREMLIN SAYS G7 LOOKS 'RATHER USELESS'
Trump said on Monday he needed to be back in Washington as soon as possible due to the situation in the Middle East, where escalating attacks between Iran and Israel have raised risks of a broader regional conflict.
He later said his early departure from the summit had "nothing to do with" working on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, however, denying comments by French President Emmanuel Macron, who had said the U.S. president leaving could be a sign of a potential deal.
A White House official said Trump explained that he returned to the U.S. because it is better to hold high-level National Security Council meetings in person, rather than over the phone.
Trump did agree to a group statement published on Monday calling for a resolution of the Israel-Iran conflict.
The statement said Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror and that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Upon arriving at the summit on Monday, Trump said that the then Group of Eight had been wrong to expel Russia after Putin ordered the occupation of Crimea in 2014.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Trump was right and said the G7 was no longer significant for Russia and looked "rather useless."
Carney also invited non-G7 members Mexico, India, Australia, South Africa, South Korea and Brazil, as he tries to shore up alliances elsewhere and diversify Canada's exports away from the United States.
© Thomson Reuters 2025.
52 Comments
Blacklabel
as I said, someone would be paying.
Wasn’t the USA this time, Trump smartly left with our wallet intact before Zelensky could arrive.
JJE
Kremlin is correct: G7 is rather useless.
Hard to get a less relevant, more pathetic bunch.
Since Trump upstaged the whole event by simply commenting at the first press conference, then dramatically leaving, this has been a non-event scrambling to salvage a purpose. About the most exciting moment was Starmer bending over to pick up the papers.
Jay
In the middle of a CRUSHING cost-of-living crisis, working-class Canadians will be absolutely delighted to know their hard-earned tax dollars are being shipped off to fund yet another blank check for Ukraine.
There we go, 2 billion dollars for a war they never voted for - a conflict started and kept alive by the U.S. military-industrial complex - while Canadians struggle to make ends meet. Not for healthcare, not for housing, but for a geopolitical mess half a world away.
Carney’s message is loud and clear: Canadians come second. The globalist agenda always comes first.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Trump has checked out of solving problems. Responsible countries will have to cover the bill. Hopefully someone can frame it as Big Beautiful Weapons Purchases from Trump to get a modicum of cooperation.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Still Putin's War. Average Canadians are able to take in this fact somehow.
quercetum
The G6 is more powerful than ever. Never underestimate a group that can agree on a dinner menu and issue a communique in five languages.
Tokyo Guy
A fresh wind blows in to remove the literal / figurative stench of Trump.
Ricky Kaminski13
Canada will never miss an opportunity to virtue signal to the world ( it’s sort of their brand now ) , despite the stark state of disarray that their own country is in.
We all feel for Zelensky and his cause, and that’s 100% true sentiment, ( they have been incredibly brave and effective, inspirational too ) but what’s the road map to end this particular disastrous war. Both sides seek total victory, which just means the continuation of the death, destruction and carnage. Putin seems quite happy to do that , has zero issue sending his youth to die, so do we too sacrifice all the young men of the Ukraine for sentiment and some sort of western moral higher ground. All good when it’s someone else’s son/ daughter dying and someone else is paying.
Anyone that dares ask this simple question gets labeled as a Putin shill by the absolutists, when nothing could be further from the truth. What’s the plan then Mark Carney? Can Carney deliver anything but an opportunistic back patting session? Are the Europeans in for the long hall ?
Trump leaving the table was bold and boss. Other actual rather pressing issues to attend to. Bye now, good luck with that.
Tokyo Guy
The G6 is more powerful than ever. Never underestimate a group that can agree on a dinner menu and issue a communique in five languages.
I think of it as surgery. Sometimes removing something is essential for the continued survival of the organism. That "something" is the US in its current state.
When / if we see sense and elect a proper leader, then by all means we should rejoin, because we do (in normal times) have a lot to offer. But right now, any group with us in it is operating at a disadvantage.
sakurasuki
US really knows the priority, just a chit-chat with world "leader" won't result anything significant.
bass4funk
So what?
Surgery? We will always be conjoined at the hip with Europe, sadly.
We did, an American one
Really? Such as?
John-San
I wonder If Macron give tips to Trump on how to use a knife and fork at the dinner?
stickman1760
I don’t know what the plan is Kaminski
the orange curd said he would end it in 24 hours. Ask him.
WoodyLee
Shut this meat grinder down, it's long overdue.
Wasabi
The world continue moving forward and leave the US behind with russia as their new friend.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Iran article is on another page.
itsonlyrocknroll
Full recognition kudos to Canada, Mark Carney.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa would provide C$2 billion ($1.47 billion) in new military assistance for Kyiv as well as impose new financial sanctions.
As for the other "G5", especially fantasist Marcon, maybe wife Brigitte First Lady of France can give her husband another sound slap, its another meaningless meeting, followed by the obligatory "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy selfie", then descend into a hapless hopeless useless knitting circle gibberish
When Trump left the building, well, to put it in the wise words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"Diplomacy is now in a state of crisis" and said they need to continue calling on Trump "to use his real influence"
"Even if the American President is not putting enough pressure on Russia right now, the truth is that America still has the broadest global interests and the largest number of allies. All of them will need strong protection,"…..
TaiwanIsNotChina
This but unironically: Peking and Moscow only have to issue a statement in their language and then have their mouthpieces translate for them.
TaiwanIsNotChina
What is your plan for Ukraine to maintain its independence?
TaiwanIsNotChina
That is a bold statement that the EU and Canada are not part of the world.
David Brent
Imagine how relieved they must be that Trump buggered off.
stormcrow
Now Trump doesn’t have to help Ukraine without answering those mean questions from reporters he hates so much.
Three cheers for Canada on having the common and decent sense to help Ukraine. The Canadians get it about democracy even as their next door neighbor suffers temporary amnesia.
funkymofo
It will be easier to get things done without the angry baby in the room making everything about him. He’s got his work cut out anyway, President No New Wars has to justify ignoring the IAEA and his own intelligence agencies to declare war on Iran for Israel.
HopeSpringsEternal
G-6 + ONE now, as Europe and Japan, rapidly becoming irrelevant, with Big Govt. crowding out tech innovation, lousy demographics, too few resources etc., while Canada's effectively a 'state' dependent on the US.
Time to get China, India and yes Russia all back at the table in order to address the global reality effectively, vs. the current broken bi-polar approach, G-10 needed!
HopeSpringsEternal
Trump cleared out, as US has already invested FAR $more than rest of the G-7 in Ukraine, while NOT being a secured 'creditor', unlike all other proxy war creditors.
Trump's put Ukraine $wallet away, Iran the focus, not an unwinnable territorial matter stemming from a 2014 Civil War, but rather dangerous nuclear weapons proliferation
US Ukraine Minerals Joint Venture unrelated to prior US Ukraine war support, was unsecured unlike all other proxy creditors, and depends solely upon performance and profit sharing of this JV if and when the war ends.
stickman1760
Good luck solving the middle east
that has gone so well for the US over the years.
wallace
The US allocated $174 billion for Ukraine, but to date has given $119 billion. The EU has delivered $138 billion.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-checking-trumps-claims-amount-us-aid-ukraine/story?id=119167409
deanzaZZR
So the leaders of some of the wealthiest countries got together amidst a slowing world economy, trade chaos started by USA global tariffs, wars in Europe and the Middle East and the outcome was to sanction Russia further?
Now that's global leadership. /s
proxy
Of course Zelenskyy would show up to pick the pockets of Canadian taxpayers. Carney IS NOT a king.
Spending actually has to be approved by the democratically elected parliament but Canadian democracy is not very democratic. King Carney just ignores the parliament. As hard as it is to believe that guy is even worse than Trudeau.
nokingHopeSpringsEternal
Allocation 'subjective', as for example, does anyone think Intel and Military community stateside, and all satellite data and targeting info shared with Ukraine is just FREE?
US has committed tens of millions of man hours within US Govt. to support Ukraine. They are paid salaries and not doing other work. It's called "apportionment' in accounting, how Trump arrives at $350Billion support
HopeSpringsEternal
The G-6 is unable to rebuild their own military capacity in the short or medium term and so to think they'll be able to save Ukraine is far-fetched to put it mildly. They don't have nearly the US military intel capabilities either.
Ukraine, like Iran, should seek a peaceful resolution ASAP, as neither can win on the battlefield, and will only be further destroyed, depopulated and indebted due to greater infrastructure destruction, etc.
WiseOneIn Kansai
Well it's hard for this POTUS to hang around when everyone can't stand him. Then showboating that only he could talk to Putin (not that anyone really cares).
What has he achieved since he came into office? Only mayhem and chaos!!
stickman1760
Well, since dear leader Trump is the only one who can talk to Putin maybe Trump can ask Putin to stop invading a sovereign country. ASAP.
JJE
Which 'sovereign' country? Surely not the one 100% reliant on handouts from people at this meeting!
FizzBit
These people are living in Fantasy Island. Good for trump to get out of there.
LOL Food for lemmings
Peter14
G7 is rudderless. The US is only influential and powerful when it has a smart leader, which is why it is so useless right now.
Trumps bumbling bluff and bluster works ok for third world nations but for a country that was seen as a world leader to magically turn itself into a pumpkin as this administration has done, is nothing short of disastrous for its own citizens and importantly to the world as well.
Control over good sense and restraint of military brinkmanship continues to slip faster than ever under 47.
There is no bastion of good behavior and sensible leadership for the world to look to, and until one can come to the fore the world will slide further into the abyss.
elephant200
Yes, Donald Trump is right, without Russia participating is a mistake. Because Russia is a massive nuclear power but all of you six countries depised Putin. Now Trump depised all of you and leave you guys alone !
Cephus
"G7 leaders forge on without Trump; Canada aids Ukraine."
This G7 is like small children squabbling in a market. "Zellenskyy is a good boy, Putin is bad" If you really want to end the Russia/ Ukraine war why invite one but not the other? Well, I don't want to hear who started the war. I want to hear how to bring it to an end.
elephant200
Look at the grim and very sad face of Mr.Ishiba. Once if the US president leave you alone then you are alone. Japan has no influences to raise any ideas to solve the crisis in this turbulent world.
Japan, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada all of you were just dogs. The master leave you and you guys are really on your own and right now you guys are sad !
alex
Trump is trying to save money for America, by not financing support for Ukraine.
Fortunately for the civilized world, everybody else can see the bigger picture. This is not a matter of economy, but one of fundamental human rights. A bigger country should not be allowed to unilaterally invade another sovereign nation, and steal land. Injustices must be righted, not rewarded or ignored.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Peter14
And instead increasing spending on support for Israel and its regional war against almost everyone.
If they are going to support anyone it should be a victim, not an aggressor. Swap all support from Israel and send it all to Ukraine. At least there you'll get some minerals you need. From Israel you get nothing but more problems.
elephant200
Donald Trump is going to dump AUKUS alliance and leaving Australia without any nuclear submarines. You know this AUKUS idea was from the most depised Joe Biden 's unmature idea and he is a very pragmatic person. Leaving G7 this ‘’Waste of time‘’ forum of making pointless declaration is his usual behaviors.
TaiwanIsNotChina
russia clearly the offending party in the war in Europe.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The UN charter does not care about who is receiving aid, it cares about who is heinously assaulting a country with 100% recognition.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Putting russians into the ground is bringing it to an end.
Cephus
"Putting russians into the ground is bringing it to an end."
Your hero uncle Joe had all the time to resolve this issue before the war started but unfortunately he was too preoccupied with making pride flags.
wallace
Another wild claim. $200 billion spent on government salaries in support of Ukraine. Don't tell DOGE. Equal to one quart of the total defense budget.
The annual intelligence budget exceeds $70 billion per year, but that figure represents just a small portion of what the U.S. spends on national defense and homeland security.
funkymofo
Putin out of Ukraine. Simple.
Cephus
"Putin out of Ukraine. Simple."
If it was simple as you suggested, it could have been done longtime ago. The issue of NATO expansion towards the Russian territory complicates everything else.
Cephus
"Putting russians into the ground is bringing it to an end."
That seems to be a toll order.
deanzaZZR
When the G7 was useful (somewhat) it focused on economics and finance. What the heck is NATO's Rutte doing there?
Desert Tortoise
Canada ought to seriously pursue an EU membership and break free of the US economy entirely. The US no longer deserves to have a friend in Canada. They have ruined that relationship permanently. Canada needs to move on and find a way disengage from the US economy.