Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida laid flowers at the cenotaph of the victims of the atomic bomb. "The images of Hiroshima in ruins really remind me, remind me of Bakhmut and other similar cities," Zelenskiy said.

"There is nothing left, where all the buildings were destroyed, where there is no one left," he added. The G7 summit is the last of the G7 nations to be held in Europe.