G7 leaders have been caught in a candid moment appearing to mock Russian President Vladimir Putin over an image he shared in August 2009. Read the latest on the G7 summit here: g7summit vladimirputin
Despite the multiple rounds of punitive measures that Western allies have unleashed on Moscow, Mr Zelenskyy pleaded with them to "not lower the pressure and to keep sanctioning Russia massively and heavily".Meanwhile, the Kremlin insisted on Monday there were "no grounds" to say Russia had defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt as the West pummels Russia with sanctions over its Ukraine offensive.
"These claims about default, they are absolutely wrong," he said, adding that Russia settled the debt in May.Bloomberg News reported earlier on Monday that Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in more than a century, after the grace period on some $100 million of interest payments due Sunday had expired.
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