President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine wrapped up his look on the Group of seven summit in Japan with a go to to Hiroshima’s atomic bomb museum, saying on Sunday that he noticed echoes of his personal nation’s ache in photos of the 1945 devastation.
Mr. Zelensky later informed a information convention that the expertise had introduced tears to his eyes, invoking the bloody battle for Bakhmut, the jap Ukrainian metropolis that Russia earlier on Sunday claimed to have captured regardless of Ukrainian insistence on the contrary.
Whereas it “wouldn’t be honest” to match the assault on Hiroshima to what was occurring in his nation, Mr. Zelensky mentioned, “the images of ruined Hiroshima actually completely remind me of Bakhmut.”
“Nothing alive is left,” he added.
Mr. Zelensky echoed the statements from Ukrainian navy officers who’ve rejected claims that Bakhmut had been captured, saying “we’re preventing on because of the braveness of our warriors,” and expressed gratitude for the help proven to his nation on the three-day summit of leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies.
The president declined to supply particulars of navy help pledges he had secured on the summit, saying solely that “weapons of top of the range shall be supplied.” However he mentioned he was happy with the outcomes of his conferences in Japan and that he hoped international locations which have resisted sending deadly weapons would rethink.
“I would really like the entire states which might be succesful to supply assist to us,” Mr. Zelensky mentioned, acknowledging that some — together with the host nation — had legislative or constitutional limitations to deal with.
Whereas in Japan, Mr. Zelensky met with the leaders of shut allies — together with the USA, Britain, France and Germany — and likewise of nations reminiscent of India which have provided much less full-throated condemnation of Moscow’s invasion.
Requested if he was disillusioned that he had not met privately with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil — who has condemned President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion but in addition instructed that Mr. Zelensky and NATO share some blame for the conflict — the Ukrainian chief’s response drew laughs.
“I believe it disillusioned him,” Mr. Zelensky informed reporters.