The Kremlin said on Friday that the Group of Seven nations no longer united the world's fastest growing economies and had therefore lost much of its relevance after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would love to have Russia return to the group.

The Kremlin on Friday responded coolly to US President Donald Trump saying he would "love" to see Russia reinstated in the Group of Seven (G7) major economies. Russia was a member of the club, then known as the G8,

Russia had been a member of the G7 club of industrialized democracies, then known as the G8, until Moscow was excluded following its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014. "I'd love to have them back.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the United States not to strike a deal with Russia “behind our backs”, as he urged Europe to stand up and make its voice heard.

As Washington seeks to resolve the war in Ukraine with peace negotiations, these maps show what each side in the conflict is pushing for.

By Dmitry Antonov and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine would "of course" be involved in talks to end the war, but there would be a separate U.S.-Russian strand to the negotiations.

By saying Ukraine’s NATO membership is “impractical” and the return of Russian-occupied territories to Kyiv is “unrealistic,” the Trump administration is giving its blessing to key items on President

Zelensky said that Putin wanted one-on-one talks with the U.S. and will try to get Trump to stand on Red Square for the May 9 celebrations marking Moscow's contribution to the defeat of Nazism. But Trump would not be considered "a respected leader" but as "a prop in his own performance,