The G7 will support Ukraine for a long time to come
US President Joe Biden confirmed today, Wednesday, that Group of Seven Industrial Countries The big ones (USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan) will support Ukraine for a long time to come.
He said at a press conference for G7 leaders in the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from Vilnius that the G7 issued a clear statement that its support for Ukraine will continue for a long time in the future after an announcement that defined a multilateral framework to support Ukraine, indicating that Kiev is the priority of the seven countries.
He also continued, “We agreed on a comprehensive plan of action regarding Ukraine’s accession to NATO.”
He also said, “We will make Ukraine more powerful on land, sea and air,” stressing that “Ukraine’s future is in NATO.”
New aid package
In the same context, a spokeswoman for the US State Department confirmed today, Wednesday, that Ukraine has made important progress in the path of NATO membership.
As Elisabeth Stickney said from Vilnius, where NATO is holding a summit in order to send a message of support to Ukraine, “We will announce new aid packages for Kiev in the coming days.”
“We consulted with allies about supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine,” she added.
long-term military support
Earlier today, the Group of Seven major industrialized countries pledged, on Wednesday, to provide “long-term” military support to Ukraine, to help it confront the Russian invasion of its lands and deter Russia from launching any future attack against its neighbor.
“We will work with Ukraine on specific, long-term bilateral security commitments, to ensure a sustainable force capable of defending Ukraine now and deterring any Russian aggression in the future,” the G7 said in a statement.
And the seven countries added in the statement they issued on the sidelines of the NATO summit meetings in Vilnius that “in the event that Russia launches an armed attack in the future, we intend to provide rapid and continuous security assistance to Ukraine, advanced military equipment in the land, sea and air fields, as well as economic assistance, from In order to impose economic and other costs on Russia.
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that any attack targeting any member state of the alliance is an attack on the countries of the alliance as a whole.
