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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine has an "urgent, critical need for more air defence", at a G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri. Ukraine has struggled on the battlefield for months, outgunned and outnumbered by Russian forces amid a shortage of Western military aid. SOUNDBITE
Images show Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arriving in Kyiv to preside over a G7 virtual meeting on Ukraine on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, the Italian government announced. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Hiroshima, Japan, ahead of the G7 Summit where the heads of seven wealthy democracies are gathered to discuss tightening the screws on Russia's ailing economy as well as how to respond to China's growing military and economic power. IMAGES
G7 justice ministers stand together for a family photo at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann hosted the talks with his G7 counterparts, during which he said Russian missile strikes on energy infrastructure in Ukraine constituted a "war crime". IMAGES
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann qualifies Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy supplies as "war crimes," after a meeting between G7 justice ministers concerning war crimes in Ukraine. "People are left in their homes, in a winter that could possibly reach -30 degrees; then this is a terrible war crime. Winter is used as a weapon," he states. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Russia of trying to make up for defeats on the battlefield in Ukraine by targeting the country's infrastructure, leaving civilians without vital services. "President (Vladimir) Putin seems to have decided that if he can't seize Ukraine by force, he will try to freeze it into submission," Blinken says after a meeting of the G7 group of wealthy nations' foreign ministers in Germany. SOUNDBITE
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