German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock. File photoBERLIN, May 12.The G7 is discussing opportunities to provide assistance to Ukraine, including the supply of weapons and sanctions against Russia, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock told reporters in the Weissenhaus castle, where negotiations of the G7 foreign ministers will start in the evening. «We constantly discuss in the G7 in over the past weeks and months, how can we support Ukraine… are negotiating in terms of our support — sanctions and military support measures,» Burbock said. .jpg» />Britain's defense minister announced the purchase of Soviet weapons for UkraineAccording to Burbock, the crisis caused by the situation in Ukraine caused a «deep crisis throughout Europe, as well as a global crisis» as a result, among other things, of stopping the supply of grain from Ukraine. Therefore, one of the topics of the ministerial meeting will be «support for our international partners.» The global food crisis has been exacerbated by climate change, Burbock said. «We, as the strongest industrial nations and democracies, have a special responsibility, and we are not only aware of this responsibility, but we want to make sure that the 141 states that have condemned this brutal war, in including within the UN, were not left in trouble,» the minister said. Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Moldova Dmitry Kuleba and Mykola Popescu take part in the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, which starts on Thursday evening in northern Germany, in the federal state of Schleswig -Holstein.
The United States will not supply nuclear weapons to UkraineA number of Western countries have introduced several packages of sanctions against the Russian Federation because of the situation in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire world economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people. He added that current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics. According to him, Russia is not going to isolate itself, it cannot be strictly isolated in the modern world. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
