Ukraine will do 'utmost, together with the whole civilized world, to restore' official 1991 borders
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed his Western allies to step up military supplies and vowed victory over Russia, as Kyiv marked two years since Moscow's invasion on Saturday. The Ukrainian leader struck a defiant tone in the capital Kyiv with his troops in the east and south outgunned and outnumbered, and Russia having secured its first territorial gains in almost a year. Speaking to G7 leaders -- some of whom had travelled to Kyiv -- Zelensky said their "vital support" would help his country prevail on the battlefield. "Putin can lose this war," he told the virtual G7 leaders' summit, flanked by European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italy's Giorgia Meloni, who had all travelled to Kyiv. "Remember that imperial ambitions and revanchism can be defeated only together," Zelensky said. In a statement following the summit, the G7 called for additional cash to help Kyiv close its funding shortfall. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, two years on, FRANCE 24's Monte Francis is joined by Dr Alexander Rodnyansky, Presidential Advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky and Assistant Professor of Economics at Cambridge University (@arodnyansky).