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Ukraine, China’s mineral dominance, on agenda at G7
The Mercury
|November 12, 2025
G7 FOREIGN ministers gathered in Canada yesterday for meetings expected to focus on Ukraine and find consensus on a path forward to end the four-year-old conflict.
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Options to fund Ukraine’s war needs could feature prominently at the talks in Canada’s Niagara region on the US border.
The diplomats are meeting after President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Moscow's two largest oil companies in October, slamming Russian President Vladimir Putin over his refusal to end the conflict.
Trump has also pushed other European countries to stop buying oil that he says funds Moscow’s war machine.
Ukraine is enduring devastating Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure, but Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand stopped short of promising concrete outcomes to aid Kyiv at the Niagara talks.
She said a priority for the meeting was broadening discussion beyond the Group of Seven, which includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.
This story is from the November 12, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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