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Leaders of the G7 have pledged to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses and tighten sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas sectors.

Getting into it: At their summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, the group, made up of the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and the EU, said in a joint statement Wednesday that it would step up shipments of air defense systems, interceptors and long-range weapons, along with support to keep the country’s power on through winter, and was “ready to consider” licensing Ukraine to expand its own weapons production. The leaders vowed their “unwavering support for Ukraine” in defending its sovereignty.

Zelenskyy, who sat in on the summit and met Trump one-on-one, has spent more than a year lobbying allies to clear Ukraine to build its own interceptors as US Patriot stocks run low, drained partly by the war with Iran. He said Trump responded “positively” to the licensing request, though the G7 stopped short of a firm commitment, naming no specific system or timeline.

The leaders also moved to ratchet up the economic squeeze on Russia by toughening oil and gas sanctions, explicitly framing it as the right moment now that Trump had brokered a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the meeting was an “unprecedented convergence” of some of the most powerful nations. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Trump had taken “a position that is harder toward Russia,” and Zelenskyy called the results important, saying Russia must learn its war “will never be normalized.”

This all comes as the pledges land in the war’s fifth year, with Ukraine’s drones increasingly eating into Russian oil revenue. Despite this, Ukraine is facing a serious munitions strain on its air defense systems, allegedly at its most critical point since the conflict broke out.