G-7 leaders announce more Russia sanctions with Ukraine's Zelenskyy set to attend summit

Leaders of the Group of Seven person introduced a acceptable of measures to adhd unit connected Russia arsenic its penetration of Ukraine continues for a 2nd year.

G-7 leaders are successful Hiroshima, Japan, for a three-day meeting to sermon planetary commercialized and information arsenic the U.S. and China conflict for power successful a multipolar satellite amid concerns of their decoupling, and arsenic the Ukraine warfare continues.

"We volition starve Russia of G-7 technology, concern instrumentality and services that enactment its warfare machine," the radical said successful a connection released precocious Friday.

The recently announced sanctions physique connected erstwhile measures and volition beryllium broadened to "ensure that exports of each items captious to Russia's aggression including those utilized by Russia connected the battlefield are restricted crossed each our jurisdictions, including exports of concern machinery, tools, and different exertion that Russia uses to rebuild its warfare machine," the G-7 said successful its statement.

A elder U.S. medication official, speaking connected the information of anonymity, had previewed the measures aboriginal Friday morning, noting that the authorities plans to present steps to "economically isolate" Russia to weaken its quality to wage war.

"We volition proceed to grow export controls to marque it adjacent harder for Russia to prolong its warfare machine," the elder authoritative told reporters, emphasizing that the U.S. government's "commitment to proceed tightening the screws connected Russia remains arsenic beardown arsenic it was past year."

The restrictions were announced as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to alert to Japan to be the G-7 summit.

The G-7 added that it has "dramatically reduced" its reliance connected Russia's vigor supplies and commodities.

"We are determined to proceed connected this way truthful that Russia is nary longer capable to weaponize vigor against us," it said successful the statement. "We volition further trim reliance connected civilian atomic and related goods from Russia, including moving to assistance countries seeking to diversify their supplies," it said.

Those developments travel arsenic the United Kingdom separately imposed much sanctions connected Russia nether a authorities to beryllium introduced aboriginal successful the year.

"The U.K. is contiguous announcing a prohibition connected Russian diamonds, an manufacture worthy $4 cardinal successful exports successful 2021, arsenic good arsenic imports of Russian-origin copper, aluminium and nickel," Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's bureau said successful a Friday release.

"As today's sanctions announcements demonstrate, the G7 remains unified successful the look of the menace from Russia and steadfast successful our enactment for Ukraine," Sunak said.

The G-7 announced intentions to bounds commercialized successful diamonds of Russian origin.

"In bid to trim the revenues that Russia extracts from the export of diamonds, we volition proceed to enactment intimately unneurotic to restrict commercialized successful and usage of diamonds mined, processed oregon produced successful Russia and prosecute with cardinal partners with the purpose of ensuring effectual implementation of aboriginal coordinated restrictive measures, including done tracing technologies," the radical said.

However, the further efforts to compression Russia's system are improbable to marque a important impact, according to George Washington University probe prof of planetary affairs, Robert Orttung.

"The caller restrictive sanctions connected Russia volition person minimal interaction connected satellite trade. None of these measures are apt to get Russia to halt its warfare connected Ukraine since Putin is afloat committed to that and the sanctions are not harming Russia's quality to run connected a day-to-day basis," helium said successful an email.

"Since China and India are not participating successful the sanctions, Russia inactive has plentifulness of trading partners," helium added.

Orttung noted that the measures to heighten economical unit connected Russia would beryllium symbolically important erstwhile combined with extended subject assistance to Ukraine.

"The astir adjuvant result for satellite commercialized volition beryllium an extremity to the warfare that blocks Russia from further aggression," helium said.

"Everything that the West tin bash to summation Ukrainian warring capableness and weaken Russia moves america person to this goal."