{"id":274680,"date":"2026-06-17T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=274680"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:51:21","slug":"g7-countries-agree-to-increase-arms-supplies-to-ukraine-and-intensify-pressure-on-russias-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/274680\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 countries agree to increase arms supplies to Ukraine and intensify pressure on Russia\u2019s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Leaders of the G7 countries have agreed to increase arms deliveries to Ukraine and step up pressure on Russia&rsquo;s military-industrial sector during a summit held in France, according to a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/en\/G7evian\/2026\/06\/17\/g7-leaders-statement-on-geopolitical-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We agree to increase the delivery of air defence capacities, additional systems and interceptors, and long-range capabilities,&rdquo; the G7 countries stated.<\/p>\n<p>They also announced plans to grant Ukraine relevant licenses to support the expansion of domestic military production. The countries agreed to support strengthening Ukraine&rsquo;s energy resilience.<\/p>\n<p>We commit to increase the pressure on the Russian war economy. In this context, we will strengthen our sanctions, including those on the oil and gas sectors. We consider this the right moment to proceed with additional measures, as President Trump has delivered a deal [with Iran] that we support,&rdquo; reads the statement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the G7 countries have agreed to increase arms deliveries to Ukraine and step up pressure on Russia&rsquo;s military-industrial sector during a summit held in France, according to a joint statement. &ldquo;We agree to increase the delivery of air defence capacities, additional systems and interceptors, and long-range capabilities,&rdquo; the G7 countries stated. They also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":274614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274681,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274680\/revisions\/274681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}