it s come on the final day of the g7 summit of world leaders in hiroshima. president zelensky s surprise appearance has dominated the g7 meeting. he s taken part in the so called family photo with leaders of the world s most powerful democracies. it s part of a multi day diplomatic tour to solidify support for an expected spring counter offensive against russia. president zelensky also had bilateral talks with president biden. take a listen. today, i m announcing the next tranche of us security assistance to ukraine. a package that includes more ammunition, artillery, armoured vehicles to bolster ukraine s battlefield abilities. and the united states continues to help ukraine respond, recover and rebuild. and we re also supporting your pursuit of a just peace. just one aspect of ukraine s sovereignty and territorial integrity. it has to be non negotiable. itjust has to happen. so, mr president, what the people of ukraine are defending, what you ve achieved is a matter for the
partners. when he landed, i think that was a point where the significance of it went to another level because here he was the president of a country in the middle of the war making the case for ukraine to g7 and other countries. there they are, walking together towards that memorial. and these optics are also quite significant. last month, when the prime minister went to ukraine, that was an important moment. there were thoughts injapan about important moment. there were thoughts in japan about whether important moment. there were thoughts injapan about whether he would make it to ukraine. he was the only g7 leader who had not visited ukraine at the time. he met president zelensky there. we understand he invited him to come to japan but it was not confirmed. we knew president zelensky would address the g7 via video link. a different picture now look at them