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The United States opposed a firm statement of the G7 on Ukraine that sought to condemn Russia, during the group’s summit that ended Tuesday in Canada, disrupted by the early game of President Donald Trump. The conflict in Ukraine was one of the main axes of the annual appointment of the Club of great industrialized democracies (Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Japan), this time in Kananaskis, in the Canandian rock mountains. “There will be no separate statement” about Ukraine “because Americans wanted to dilute it,” said a Canadian official under anonymity, on the last day of the meeting. The other six members of the G7 agreed a “strong language”, but a joint statement would have required the United States agreement, which argued that it wanted to preserve its negotiation capacity, added this source.