While he said Kyiv was grateful to allies who tried to include stronger wording, he said Ukraine wanted to see explicit reference to “Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.” “Nothing to be proud of,” Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman at the Foreign Ministry, said in a Facebook post.
But Ukraine was disappointed in the outcome of a meeting that left out President Volodomyr Zelenskiy, who virtually addressed last year’s G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. US and European diplomats hailed the compromise as tough on Moscow, highlighting the importance of the broad support for key points. Seeking to prevent a diplomatic failure for India, this year’s G-20 host and a key partner, the US and its allies agreed to language that focused on points that enjoyed unanimous support from the group’s members, leaving out some phrasing from last year’s statement describing their opposition to the war that was more critical of Russia.
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