G7 foreign ministers were gathering in Canada on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on Ukraine, as the club of industrialized democracies seeks a path towards ending the four-year-old conflict.

Options to fund Kyiv's war needs against invasion by Russia could feature prominently at the talks in Canada's Niagara region on the US border.

The diplomats are meeting after US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Moscow's two largest oil companies in October, slamming Russian President Vladimir Putin over his refusal to end the conflict.

Trump has also pushed other European countries to stop buying oil that he says funds Moscow's war machine.

Ukraine is enduring devastating Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure, but Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand stopped short of promisi

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