BURSTFrustration after US president refuses to make Ukraine a priority at G7 despite appearance of Zelenskyy in Canada
Ukrainian diplomats have been left frustrated – and in some cases embittered – at Donald Trump’s refusal to make Ukraine a priority after Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew 5,000 miles to the G7 conference in Canada only for the US president to return home the night before the two leaders were due to meet, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour reported.
The snub came a day after “one of the most horrific attacks” on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, during the three-year war, with the death toll from the Russian strike rising to 21, with more than 130 injured.
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