BRUSSELS/BERLIN/LONDON -- Leaders from the Group of Seven advanced economies held an emergency virtual meeting Thursday, agreeing to bring forward "severe and coordinated economic and financial sanctions" against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
"This crisis is a serious threat to the rules-based international order, with ramifications well beyond Europe," they said in a joint statement issued after the summit. "We call on the Russian Federation to stop the bloodshed, to immediately de-escalate and to withdraw its forces from Ukraine."
