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Russia's President Vladimir Putin has 're-introduced war to the European continent', the leaders of the G7 have said, The Guardian reported.
In a joint statement following a virtual meeting, the leaders of France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the UK, the US, Canada as well as the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Council President, Charles Michel, and the NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, strongly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the report said.
The crisis is a "serious threat to the rules-based international order, with ramifications well beyond Europe," the G7 leaders said, adding that Putin had "put himself on the wrong side of history," The Guardian reported.
