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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Walker in Bavaria and Andrew Sparrow in London

Boris Johnson urges world leaders to hold firm on Ukraine

Johnson, Scholz and Biden
Boris Johnson, left, with Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz and, right, US president Joe Biden during the G7 summit on 26 June 2022. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AFP/Getty Images

Boris Johnson has urged other world leaders to hold firm in their long-term support for Ukraine, amid increasing concern in Downing Street that some countries could become swayed by calls for Kyiv to cede territory to Russia in exchange for peace.

Arriving at the G7 summit in southern Germany, as his domestic political woes continued to swirl, Johnson used a string of bilateral meetings and TV interviews to present himself as a bulwark against potential backsliding by the US and other western states.

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