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Foreign ministers from the G7 group of major industrialised democracies are meeting in Canada Thursday amid mounting tensions with US President Donald Trump. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to debrief Washington’s allies on this week’s efforts to strike a 30-day ceasefire deal in the Ukraine war, which Kyiv has said it supports. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
Ukraine ceasefire bid to dominate as G7 diplomats meet
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet his Canadian counterpart at a G7 gathering Thursday, but discussion of American annexation threats has been ruled off-limits at talks expected to be dominated by efforts to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Rubio arrived in the town of Charlevoix on the banks of the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday for meetings with foreign ministers from the club of the world’s industrialised democracies.
He is expected to brief on the US-led effort to pause three years of bloodshed in the Russia-Ukraine war, after meeting envoys from Kyiv in the Saudi port town of Jeddah earlier in the week.
Ukraine ceasefire bid to dominate as G7 diplomats meet
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet his Canadian counterpart at a G7 gathering Thursday, but discussion of American annexation threats has been ruled off-limits at talks expected to be dominated by efforts to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Rubio arrived in the town of Charlevoix on the banks of the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday for meetings with foreign ministers from the club of the world’s industrialised democracies.
He is expected to brief on the US-led effort to pause three years of bloodshed in the Russia-Ukraine war, after meeting envoys from Kyiv in the Saudi port town of Jeddah earlier in the week.
Russia close to driving Ukrainian forces from Kursk, Kremlin says
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the western Russian of Kursk has entered its final stage, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday visited the western Russian region of Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region last year in a bid to strengthen its hand in the event of a negotiated end to the war.
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US President Donald Trump said that “it is up to Russia now” whether the 30-day, Washington-proposed ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will materialise or not, but said he had received some positive signals.
- Russia has presented the US with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter.
- Ukraine’s top army commander said that Kyiv’s troops will continue fighting in Russia’s Kursk region “as long as appropriate and necessary” and added that fighting continued in and around town of Sudzha.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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