The anxious eyes of the world are targeted on the deteriorating state of affairs within the Center East, with the opportunity of a nuclear disaster looming ever nearer.
Within the meantime, Ukraine finds itself relegated to a really secondary aircraft each by the US Donald J. Trump administration, but additionally by the media’s fleeting consideration.
In each doable metric we will use, the state of affairs for the Kiev regime is getting worse by the day.
There’s an enormous Russian missile superiority, and the considerable and comparatively cheap Geranium (Shaheed) drones have gotten more and more tough to intercept.
The German paper Die Welt nicely summed the occasions on the bottom: ‘Russia advances 15-20 km [roughly 10-12 miles] every day, Ukrainian defenses are exhausted’.
At this vital juncture, Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky was relying on having some private time with Trump throughout the G7 convention in Canada, to advance his requests and pleadings.
However that was to not occur.
The Guardian reported:
“Ukrainian diplomats have been left pissed off – and in some circumstances embittered – at Donald Trump’s refusal to make Ukraine a precedence after Volodymyr Zelensky flew 5,000 miles to the G7 convention in Canada just for the US president to return dwelling the evening earlier than the 2 leaders had been attributable to meet. Trump mentioned he wanted to deal with the Israel-Iran battle.
In an extra blow for Kiev the US vetoed a joint assertion on Ukraine from the summit, on the grounds that the wording was too anti-Russian and will compromise negotiations with Vladimir Putin.”
WATCH: President Trump leaves the G7 early to return to the White Home Scenario Room. – 6/17/2025 pic.twitter.com/bVrf9gfJ2L
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It’s now unclear if Zelensky will attend NATO Summit within the Hague subsequent week.
“With the US chair on the G7 summit eliminated, Zelensky as a substitute sat down with the opposite members of the group at a particular session devoted to Ukraine, however the central function of the session – to attempt to enlist Trump’s help to place stress on Putin to agree a ceasefire – had been nullified by the US president’s abrupt departure introduced to fellow G7 leaders within the afternoon. Zelensky was additionally attributable to have a one-to-one assembly with Trump.
[…] Zelensky had billed that the G7 summit as certainly one of two golden probabilities to use collective western stress on Trump, and to debate Ukraine’s plans to purchase as a lot as $30bn to $50bn price of air protection techniques and weapons from america as a type of safety ensures.”
On the way in which to the G7, Zelensky visited Austria and was concerned in a foul controversy for standing beneath an umbrella and leaving his spouse within the rain.
Zelensky forgot about his spouse throughout his go to to Vienna
First, he received out of the automotive and didn’t assist his spouse. As a substitute, he rapidly went to greet the host, Sputnik Close to Overseas notes . Then Zelensky stood below an umbrella whereas his spouse was within the rain.
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