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Telfs-Buchen, Austria (CNN) --
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told G7 leaders during a virtual meeting Monday that he wants the war in Ukraine to end by the end of 2022, according to a source familiar with his comments. .
Zelensky delivered the message via video during a morning session at Schloss Elmau castle in the Bavarian Alps.
He called for a big push to end the war before winter comes several months from now, the source said.
The message was as clear a signal as Zelensky has given about how he views the trajectory of the war.
President Joe Biden and other world leaders, gathered in the Bavarian Alps, are reflecting on the next phase of the bloody war between Ukraine and Russia.
The conflict has been at the center of the Group of 7 summit that is being held inside a hundred-year-old mountain castle in the German region of Bavaria.
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Leaders have decided on new measures to isolate the Russian economy, including a ban on further imports of Russian gold, and are discussing ways to further limit Moscow's energy benefits by capping the price of Russian oil.
The United States is expected to announce this week the purchase of a new advanced medium- and long-range missile defense system that Ukraine had requested, along with new shipments of ammunition and radar systems, in its effort to take the limelight out of the war. of Russia, which has been making small inroads in the east.
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Ukraine had requested the system to help keep up its fight against Russia.
In a brief glimpse of the leaders' meeting with Zelensky, Ukraine's president could be seen on a screen in the conference room as the leaders took their seats.
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The G7 leaders are also set to announce a long series of new sanctions, including those on Russian defense supply chains, on Russians responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, on private military and new visa restrictions on 500 officials.
The United States will also announce $7.5 billion in new funding for Ukraine, as part of a broader commitment by the G7 nations to help the country offset its budget shortfalls.
"Here at this G7 meeting, as well as in NATO, we will continue to do, collectively, everything we can to make sure that the Ukrainians have what they need in their hands to repel Russian aggression," said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an exclusive interview with CNN's "State of the Union" this Sunday.
There are other major items on the agenda, including a new effort to counter China's infrastructure investments in the developing world that have spread Beijing's influence around the globe.
But the question hanging over these talks is how long the Western front can remain united against Russia.
Rising energy costs, fears of global food shortages, and the certainty that war-weariness will prevail have given urgency to debates about the course of the conflict.
Meeting this Sunday with his host, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Biden tried to underscore the importance of sticking together.
"Putin has counted from the beginning that somehow NATO and the G7 would split," he said.
"But we haven't, and we're not going to."
Zelensky, who is also scheduled to speak at this week's NATO summit in Madrid, has pressed the West to accelerate sanctions on Moscow and heavy artillery to push back the Russian invaders.
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Their pleas will become more urgent after Sunday's missile strikes on two residential buildings in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital that had enjoyed relative calm in recent weeks as the fighting moved east.
Biden condemned the attack as "barbaric."
However, it remains to be seen how far the leaders will be willing to go in applying new sanctions to Russia.
High oil prices mean that Russia gets more revenue from its energy exports, despite bans from Europe and the United States.
Western leaders meeting at the G7 have decided to try to limit the price of Russian oil, according to officials, the latest step to punish Moscow while trying to mitigate the economic effects of the war in Ukraine.
It remains to be seen how, when and by how much the price of Russian oil will be capped.
Officials said the precise mechanism to carry out the cap is still being worked out.
But the leaders will instruct their teams to work urgently on finding a way to cap the price at which Russia can sell its oil, depriving Moscow of a key source of revenue.
"The goal is to 'starve' Russia, deprive Putin of his main source of income and force down the price of Russian oil to help mitigate the impact of Putin's war on the pumps," a senior official said. of the US administration.
As oil prices have soared, Russia's oil revenues have increased, despite global import bans.
The leaders want to use their collective influence to reduce the income that Russia receives from the countries that still buy its oil.
The official suggested that the G7 countries have influence over oil transportation networks, which could help enforce the limit.
High gasoline prices for American and European consumers are putting pressure on leaders to find ways to ease the pain.
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Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" hours after Russian missiles fell on Kyiv, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Americans, Britons and other Westerners to remain determined to punish Moscow, despite the effect the war has had on world oil prices.
"I just want to say to the people of the United States that this is something that the United States does and has to do historically, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy," Johnson said.
"And if we let Putin get away with it and annex, take over significant parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what he is willing to do...then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic."
Putin, whose country was expelled from the then G8 in 2014 following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's territory of Crimea, was lightly mocked as the leaders sat down to a working lunch on Sunday.
Johnson, the last leader to arrive at the roundtable, asked if he should keep his suit jacket on.
"Jacket on?" he asked, before joking about how leaders had to appear tough during their conversations.
"We have to show that we are tougher than Putin," he said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a suggestion: "Ride bare-chested," he said, as leaders laughed.
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