Zelenskyy's G7 Summit: Aid, Disarmament, and Defiance

The inclusion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G7 summit has worried atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima, who believe it overshadowed a rare chance to push world leaders to focus on nuclear abolishment. Zelenskyy's pursuit of more weapons and other support for Ukraine, rather than a diplomatic pursuit to end the war, sends the wrong message, activists and victims said. The G7 leaders issued a joint statement on nuclear disarmament that calls for the continued non-use of nuclear weapons, transparency and dialogue between nuclear and non-nuclear states, but it justifies nuclear weapons meant to "serve defensive purposes, deter aggression and prevent war and coercion."