The G7 foreign ministers said on Saturday that the group will never recognize the borders that Russia intends to impose by the force of the war in Ukraine.
“We will never recognize the borders that Russia is trying to change with its military intervention,” the ministers said, in a statement released as part of a three-day meeting in Wangels, northern Germany.
In the statement, the diplomats again appealed to Belarus to “stop facilitating Russia’s intervention and respect its international commitments”.
The G7 foreign ministers kicked off a three-day meeting on Thursday in Schloss Weissenhaus, on the Baltic Sea coast in Germany, which currently holds the group’s rotating annual presidency.
In addition to Germany, the G7 includes Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, with the European Union (EU) also participating in the group’s meetings.
The heads of diplomacy of the G7 countries (the world’s seven largest economies) also invited their counterparts from Ukraine and Moldova to participate in the meeting.
Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine on February 24 that has killed more than 3,000 civilians, according to the UN, which warns that the real number is likely to be much higher.
The military offensive caused the flight of more than 13 million people, more than 6 million of them out of the country, according to the latest UN data.
The Russian invasion was condemned by the international community in general, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and reinforcing economic and political sanctions on Moscow.
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