Sunday 26 June 2022 01:09 PM G7 leaders mock Vladimir Putin at lunch trends now

The leaders of the G7 mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday as they sat down to lunch, joking about his infamous barechested horseback riding photo.

Their laughter came as President Joe Biden is working to hold the western alliance in lockstep as the war in Ukraine entered its fifth month and Russia dropped bombs on Kyiv for the first time in weeks. 

'Jackets on? Jackets off? Do we take our coats off?' British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked as he sat down at the table with his fellow leaders of the world's biggest economies.

'Let's wait for the picture,' Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Officials were trying to take an official photo of the luncheon with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.

'We have to show that we're tougher than Putin,' Johnson said.

Trudeau then added: 'We're going to get the bare chested horseback riding display.'

He was referring to a 2009 photo of a shirtless Putin riding a horse in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region during vacation. 

'Horse back riding is the best,' European Union President Ursula von der Leyen chimed in.

President Biden was at the luncheon but didn't appear to participate in the mocking. 

Earlier, however, Biden slammed Russia's attack on Kyiv as 'barbarism.'

'It's more of their barbarism,' he said during the official welcome ceremony for G7 leaders at Schloss Elmau.

As the G7 leaders gathered in Germany, Russia ramped up its attacks in the Ukraine. Russian forces attacked the capital of Kyiv for the first time in weeks, striking at least two residential buildings. 

Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba tweeted a photo of a young girl being carried out of the rubble, strapped to a stretcher and being aided by emergency workers. Her father was killed and her mother was injuried, according to local reports.

'This 7 y.o. Ukrainian kid was sleeping peacefully in Kyiv until a Russian cruise missile blasted her home. Many more around Ukraine are under strikes. G7 summit must respond with more sanctions on Russia and more heavy arms for Ukraine. Russia's sick imperialism must be defeated,' Kuleba wrote on Twitter. 

Culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko told local media that a kindergarten was hit. Before Sunday's attack, Kyiv had not faced any Russian airstrikes since June 5. 

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told reporters in Kyiv that he believed the strike 'is maybe a symbolic attack' ahead of this week's NATO summit in Madrid. 

Russia's invasion of the Ukraine will be the main topics of discussion at this week's G7 summit in Germany and NATO meeting in Madrid. As the fighting in Ukraine enters its fifth month, Biden is shoring up allies to hang in there for the long haul. 

He is pushing a message of unity in his meeting with leaders. 

And other leaders were mocking Putin as the G7 officials gathered for their official lunch. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according CNN, asked if he should keep his jacket on for the sit down and added: 'We have to show that we're tougher than Putin.' 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joked: 'Bare chested horseback ride.' 

Biden, on Sunday, began his first day at the G7 summit by praising the German chancellor and vowing unity among the alliance against the invasion of the Ukraine.  

'Thank you thank you... we have to stay together,' he told Olaf Scholz as they looked out at the stunning mountain view at Schloss Elmau, the grand setting for the summit.

'Because Putin is counting on from the beginning that NATO and the G7 would splinter. But we haven't and we're not going to.'

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