Zelensky's Participation in G7 Meeting Turned it Into 'Propaganda Show': Russian Foreign Ministry

Following his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima, Japan, US President Joe Biden announced a fresh package of military aid to Ukraine including "ammunition, artillery, and armored vehicles," the Pentagon stated. Additional HIMARS ammo, artillery shells, anti-armor capabilities, and vehicles are all part of the package.
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Volodymyr Zelensky's participation in the G7 meeting, which took place in Hiroshima, Japan on May 19-21, turned the summit into a "propaganda show," the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

"Persisting in demonstrating their intention to inflict a 'strategic defeat' on Russia, the leaders of the G7 countries brought to their meeting the leader of the regime controlled by them in Kiev and finally turned the Hiroshima event into a propaganda show," the ministry said in a statement.

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The G7 used to be a group whose members coordinated their positions on a variety of important international issues, whereas now "it has irreversibly degraded," the ministry said.

"The G7 has become literally fixated on a comprehensive confrontation with Russia. At the US' behest, it assumed the role of a headquarters for the planning of sanctions and other hybrid war tools against our country, including deciding the scale and timing of Western arms supplies to Kiev. That is the group's purpose of existing today," the ministry said.

The decisions of the Group of Seven summit are politicized and odious, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, commenting on the meeting.

"Its [the G7 summit's] main result is a series of statements filled with odious anti-Russian and anti-Chinese passages. This was yet another G7 meeting that has resulted in politicized statements aimed at drawing division lines in international relations," the statement read.

In addition, the ministry noted that experiments of the Group of Seven in the field of energy transfer and the introduction of "green technologies" do not allow for the formation of a sustainable energy balance.

"The experiments of the G7 on energy transfer and the introduction of 'green technologies' do not allow, due to their unreliability, forming a stable energy balance," the ministry noted. "Countries with a high level of prosperity can afford such innovations. Their imposition on states that have already been experiencing energy hunger for a long time undermines the basis for sustainable growth of national economies."

From May 19 to 21, the Japanese city of Hiroshima hosted the G7's annual top-level summit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was invited as a guest.