Rishi Sunak will set out a £240m aid package to Ukraine as world leaders meet to discuss how to intensify financial pressure on Russia. The prime minister, in what could be his last G7 summit in the job, will use the visit to Puglia to say the UK is behind Ukraine 'whatever it takes' as the war grinds on.
President Emmanuel Macron, of France, has called parliamentary elections for the end of this month. US President Joe Biden will also attend and is expected to sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is invited to the summit. The White House said it would send a signal to Russia of American resolve in supporting Kyiv. It is three years since President Biden, at his first G7 summit in Cornwall, declared America was back as a global leader.