Good morning from Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn.
It’s the final day of crunch G7 talks on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Euronews’s Angela Skujins and Maria Tadeo continue to report from the ground – and where leaders overnight coalesced around a rare joint stance on the war in Ukraine.
G7 unite on Ukraine: In the statement, published shortly after midnight, leaders said they “stand united in our unwavering support for Ukraine in defending its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity”. The statement has been signed by the US President, Donald Trump.
Crucially, all leaders also committed to increasing “pressure on the Russian war economy" and to "strengthen our sanctions, including those on the oil and gas sectors.”
Europeans will no doubt consider the statement a major win, after both the US and the UK had been accused of watering down sanctions on Russian energy commodities in order to cushion the impact of the war in Iran.
