Donald Trump showed up to the G7 summit in the French Alps and made sure everyone knew who was running the show. At the gathering in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 16-17, the US president pressed fellow leaders to back Ukraine with enhanced military support while signaling that sanctions on Russian oil shipments would be reimposed imminently.
The joint declaration referenced Trump by name three times in connection with sanctions policy.
What happened at Evian
The summit produced two concrete outcomes that matter. First, G7 nations committed to providing Ukraine with improved air defense systems, a priority that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been pushing for aggressively. Second, the group signaled a willingness to escalate economic pressure on Russia if Moscow refuses to come to the negotiating table.
Trump indicated that the US would soon reimpose sanctions on Russian oil exports. Those sanctions had been partially relaxed in recent months to avoid disrupting global oil markets while the administration pursued diplomatic negotiations concerning Iran.
