Ukraine war: All eyes on G7 as Zelenskyy calls for more effort from West
The Ukrainian president is expected to call on Monday for more weapons for his war-torn country and a further tightening of Western sanctions against Moscow to the G7 leaders united against Russia at their annual summit in Germany.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to speak by video conference mid-morning at the meeting of the seven industrial powers which began on Sunday in the bucolic setting of Elmau Castle at the foot of the Bavarian Alps.
The Ukrainian leader, who will also attend the Nato summit in Madrid from Tuesday, wants to pressure the seven leaders for more support from them, the day after Russian strikes on Kyiv, denounced as acts of "barbarism" by the American president, Joe Biden.
For the first time in weeks, the Ukrainian capital was hit by Russian missiles on Sunday morning as fierce fighting continued in the east of the country in the deadly conflict now in its fifth month.
"One man was killed, he was only 37 years old. There are wounded, including a girl called Genya, she is seven years old and she is the daughter of the deceased (...) Her mother was also wounded. She is a Russian citizen. Nothing threatened her in our state, she was safe until Russia decided that everything in Ukraine is hostile to her," Zelenskyy said in a video message on Sunday evening.
The G7 leaders (...) have enough joint potential to stop Russian aggression," he said. "But this will only be possible when we get everything we ask for and in the necessary timeframe: arms, and financial support, and sanctions against Russia."
Later on Sunday, a local official reported a second death in Kyiv, telling the Unian news agency that a railway worker was killed and several others injured in the attacks while servicing rail infrastructure.
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