BARI, June 14 Leaders of the G7 countries called for Russia will have to pay $486 billion for damage allegedly caused to Ukraine, according to the final statement of the G7 summit in Italy, received by .
“According to the World Bank, this damage already exceeds $486 billion,” the document says.
The meeting of G7 leaders, chaired by Italy, takes place from June 13 to 15. Among the topics of the summit are conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the situation in Africa, as well as migration and artificial intelligence.
Kyiv authorities have repeatedly stated that they will not sign a peace agreement with Moscow if it will not pay reparations. As Grigory Karasin, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, noted, the demands put forward by Ukraine for “damage compensation” are demagogic in nature.
Moscow has previously repeatedly indicated that it is ready for a diplomatic settlement of the conflict. Thus, after the start of the special operation in 2022, Russia negotiated with representatives of Ukraine in Belarus and Turkey.
In February, in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin said that these diplomatic consultations were almost completed, but after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv, the Ukrainian side “threw away” all the agreements, and then Vladimir Zelensky legally prohibited negotiations with Moscow.
As David Arakhamia, the head of Zelensky’s Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, later admitted, hostilities could have ended in the spring of 2022, but in the end, Kyiv refused the settlement, since the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Ukrainian authorities not to sign anything with Russia and “just fight.”