The worried eyes of the world are focused on the deteriorating scenario in the Middle East, with the possibility of a nuclear crisis looming ever closer.
In the meantime, Ukraine finds itself relegated to a very secondary plane both by the US Donald J. Trump administration, but also by the media’s fleeting attention.
In every possible metric we can use, the situation for the Kiev regime is getting worse by the day.
There’s a massive Russian missile superiority, and the abundant and relatively inexpensive Geranium (Shaheed) drones are becoming increasingly difficult to intercept.
The German paper Die Welt well summed the events on the ground: ‘Russia advances 15-20 km [roughly 10-12 miles] daily, Ukrainian defenses are exhausted’.
At this critical juncture, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky was counting on having some personal time with Trump during the G7 conference in Canada, to advance his requests and pleadings.
But that was not to happen.
The Guardian reported:
“Ukrainian diplomats have been left frustrated – and in some cases embittered – at Donald Trump’s refusal to make Ukraine a priority after Volodymyr Zelensky flew 5,000 miles to the G7 conference in Canada only for the US president to return home the night before the two leaders were due to meet. Trump said he needed to focus on the Israel-Iran conflict.
In a further blow for Kiev the US vetoed a joint statement on Ukraine from the summit, on the grounds that the wording was too anti-Russian and could compromise negotiations with Vladimir Putin.”
WATCH: President Trump leaves the G7 early to return to the White House Situation Room. – 6/17/2025 pic.twitter.com/bVrf9gfJ2L
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It is now unclear if Zelensky will attend NATO Summit in the Hague next week.
“With the US chair at the G7 summit removed, Zelensky instead sat down with the other members of the group at a special session dedicated to Ukraine, but the central purpose of the session – to try to enlist Trump’s support to put pressure on Putin to agree a ceasefire – had been nullified by the US president’s abrupt departure announced to fellow G7 leaders in the afternoon. Zelensky was also due to have a one-to-one meeting with Trump.
[…] Zelensky had billed that the G7 summit as one of two golden chances to apply collective western pressure on Trump, and to discuss Ukraine’s plans to buy as much as $30bn to $50bn worth of air defense systems and weapons from the United States as a form of security guarantees.”
On the way to the G7, Zelensky visited Austria and was involved in a bad controversy for standing beneath an umbrella and leaving his wife in the rain.
Zelensky forgot about his wife during his visit to Vienna
First, he got out of the car and did not help his wife. Instead, he quickly went to greet the host, Sputnik Near Abroad notes . Then Zelensky stood under an umbrella while his wife was in the rain.
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