President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the G7 Summit, Monday, June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Canada.

Donald Trump has claimed that kicking Russia out of the G7 was a “very big mistake” which helped pave the way to the ongoing Ukraine war.

Russia was part of the “group of eight” (G8), an intergovernmental political forum, up until 2014 when it was expelled for annexing the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

But, according to the US president, that was a major mistake made by former US president Barack Obama and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Speaking to the press while meeting with the current Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of this week’s G7 summit, Trump said: “Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in.

“I think........

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