Any chance Russia will join G7 again? Germany says ‘no,’ but admits Moscow’s help needed to put out flaming hotspots

no chance

There’s “no chance” of Moscow returning to the elitist Group of Seven unless the Ukrainian conflict is solved, Berlin has said. But untying this and other knots is unimaginable without Russia’s helping hand, it admitted.

The alliance of the world’s top-tier powers made Moscow leave in the wake of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis. It unfolded shortly after Crimea chose to rejoin mainland Russia, followed by hostilities in eastern Ukraine between government forces and the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

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