President Biden left the G-7 meeting early to get updates from the debt crisis issue facing his country back home.
The Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, confirm on Ukraine national television that Zelenskyy would attend the summit.
It is said that President Zelenskyy will demand for more weapons when addressing the summit this Sunday.
“We are sure that our president would be where Ukraine needed him, in any part of the world, to solve the issue of stability of our country,” Danilov said Friday. “There will be very important matters decided there, so physical presence is a crucial thing to defend our interest.”
Zelenskyy himself announce on Friday that he had opened a visit to Saudi Arabia, where Arab leaders were holding a summit.
This year’s G-7 Summit is holding in Hiroshima, Japan. The leaders of the seven most powerful democracies in the world vowed Friday to tighten punishments on Russia for its war of Ukraine.
“Our support for Ukraine will not waver,” the G-7 leaders pledge in a statement released at the conclusion of their closed-door meetings. They also vowed “to stand together against Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.