The G7 begins in Borgo Egnazia, it is immediately Zelensky’s day

The "big seven" have already found an agreement, worth 50 billion dollars a year, guaranteed by confiscated Russian assets

BARI – The first day of the G7 is also that of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine: in the Apulian resort of Borgo Egnazia the president will participate in a special session of the forum in the afternoon, focusing on hypothesis of billions in financing in Kiev guaranteed by confiscated Russian assets. We are already talking about numbers, awaiting the arrival of the foreign heads of state and government who will be welcomed in the morning by guest Giorgia Meloni. According to rumors filtered by French sources, not confirmed at an official level, the seven “big” have already found an agreement worth 50 billion dollars a year. Starting from the confiscation of assets seized from Russia and its Central Bank, mostly in the territory of the European Union, the support for Ukraine in the war against Moscow would amount to this much. According to advance reports, the funds would arrive in the form of loans from the United States government. At the origin of the resources are assets blocked especially in Belgium, for a total value of 300 billion dollars.

Zelensky will speak about this in Borgo Egnazia, during the special session and then also in a bilateral meeting with American President Joe Biden. In any case he will only stay in Puglia today. He will arrive from Saudi Arabia, where he met Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “We also discussed the preparation of the Global Peace Summit, its possible outcomes and its applications, with a view to building real peace in Ukraine” Zelensky wrote last night on social networks.

The reference is to an international conference scheduled for Lucerne, Switzerland, next Saturday and Sunday. The G7 starting today, seen by the government of Ukraine, is therefore a stage in a journey. Difficult, as the newspaper ‘Kyiv Independent’ confirmed this morning: the number of countries expected in Lucerne has decreased from 93 to 78. Not to mention Russia, in times of G7 no longer G8, excluded from the start.