A joint final statement issued Saturday by the G7 Defence gathering in Naples expressed "unshakable support" for Ukraine.
"We stress our unshakable support for Ukraine, which for nearly three years has defended itself from Russia's brutal and illegal large-scale war of aggression.
"We condemn Russia, which has adopted a position of confrontation and destabilization on a global scale, adopting a hybrid war and the irresponsible use of nuclear rhetoric", said participants that included G7 defence ministers, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umierov.
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