you could join us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. there has been no immediate reaction from kyiv to those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f 16 jets. a move moscow had criticised. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic t
zelensky s visit which did steal the spotlight. the focus was meant to be on china but president zelensky s arrival marked the culmination of 48 hours of speculation as to whether he would come. we understand the ukrainians were very keen for him to visit here in person at the g7 summit so he could meet all of his allies all in one place and continue to plead his case for more support, more weapons, more finance to fight russia on the battlefield. g7 nations are here, willing to reciprocate, it seems. they re standing by ukraine and doubling down on things like shanks and is. but as you pointed out earlier, he was a just meeting with allies who have said what they have said and done what they have done, he was meeting the leaders of other countries, narend ra modie vendy, leader of the world s fifth biggest