Russia calls G7 summit an incubator of anti-Russian, anti-Chinese “hysteria”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia disqualified on Sunday the summit of the G7 held in the Japanese city of hiroshima as an event “politicized” in which, he said, anti-Russian and anti-Chinese statements had been made, and accused the forum of undermining world stability.

Moscow lashed out after leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies said they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, warning Russian President Vladimir Putin when he claimed to have seized the eastern city of Bakhmut, something Kiev denied.

In a statement posted on Telegram, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that the G7 had “irreversibly damaged” and that the forum had become “an ‘incubator’ where, under Anglo-Saxon leadership, destructive initiatives are prepared that undermine global stability.” The statement accused the G7 of fanning “hysteria” Anti-Russian and anti-Chinese.

Russia used to be a member of the G7 club of industrialized democracies, formerly known as the G8, until Moscow was excluded after it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was present at the Hiroshima summit as a guest, an opportunity he took to encourage member countries to maintain arms supplies and diplomatic support for Kiev amid its war with Russia, something Moscow follows. qualifying as “special military operation”.

The summit gave Zelensky an opportunity to lobby for the support of other attendees, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who remain uncommitted.

The Russian Foreign Ministry, in the same statement, accused the G7 of “flirt” with non-Western states in an effort to hinder the development of its ties with Moscow and Beijing.

However, he was convinced that the forum was unable to reflect the interests of the Asia-Pacific region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa or Latin America.

Source: Reuters