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US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, on the last day of the G7 summit. An important topic was what support Ukraine can get from the G7 leaders. At the meeting, Zelenskyj received promises of new weapons, and assurances that Ukrainian pilots will receive training on F-16 combat aircraft. The US should also have given the go-ahead for allies to deliver F-16 aircraft to Ukraine, writes the BBC. Zelenskyy has been asking for the fighter jets for several months, but the US has hesitated to give permission for the US-made planes to be delivered to Ukraine. The G7 leaders have unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo: AP Scholz: F-16 training is a message to Russia F-16 training of Ukrainian pilots will be a message to Russia that the country cannot count on winning the war, says German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz. Scholz and Zelenskyj met on Saturday during the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. Scholz says the training program must be a long-term project. Scholz also said that it is important that the president of Ukraine gets to meet leaders from non-Western countries. – If proposals for peace talks are put forward, the goal cannot be that we get a frozen conflict. Russia must withdraw its forces, Scholz said. To the German television station Welt, Scholz says that it is important to clarify how Ukraine’s security is to be safeguarded. He also said that eventual Ukrainian Nato membership is not something that will exist in the near future. “Family picture” Before the end of the meeting on Sunday, Zelenskyj will address the leaders of the seven G7 countries. G7 SUMMIT “FAMILY PICTURE”: From right: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, Japanese Prime Minister and summit host, Fumio Kishida, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and, far left, Council of Europe President Charles Michel. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP



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