The Kremlin said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump was right to assert that it had been a big mistake to expel Russia from the Group of Eight in 2014, but that the G7 was no longer significant for Russia and looked "rather useless" now.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his counterparts from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan were joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO chief Mark Rutte and discussed Russia’s relentless war on its neighbor at what has essentially become just the G6.

Russia was once in the exclusive club of major economies but was kicked out following its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.