Trump sabotages planned G7 condemnation of Russian missile strike on Ukraine: report

The G7 countries' plan to formally condemn a Russian missile attack on Ukraine is being rejected by the Trump administration, reported Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

"Russia fired two short-range ballistic missiles, including one equipped with cluster munitions, at Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Palm Sunday morning as Ukrainians attended church services," noted the report. "At least 35 people were killed and 119 injured in the attack, including children, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said."

The rest of the G7 countries planned a statement denouncing the attack. However, the Trump administration has declined to back it, saying that they are “working to preserve the space to negotiate peace.” The non-participation of the United States effectively prevents the statement from being issued at all, according to officials from Canada, which holds the rotating G7 presidency this year.

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Since Trump took office, the United States has pivoted sharply from its previous unequivocal stances in support of Ukraine against the Russian invasion, shifting to place more priority on a peaceful resolution to the war regardless of whether that might mean concessions to Russian occupying forces and the Kremlin.

Earlier this week in his White House meeting with the president of El Salvador, Trump went out of his way to blame Zelensky himself for the bloodshed, even though his country is the one being invaded. "He's always looking to purchase missiles," Trump said of Zelensky. "When you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles." (Zelensky did not start the war.)

Trump has also called Zelensky a "dictator" because elections are suspended in Ukraine, even though that country's constitution requires that during a period of wartime and even though opposition parties in Ukraine broadly agree with that move.