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.

As the Group of Seven (G7) leaders gathered for a summit in Canada on Monday focusing on conflict and trade, US President Donald Trump bemoaned the exclusion of Russia. Ahead of the official start of this year's G7 summit of leading democratic economies in Canada,

World leaders had gathered in Canada with the specific goal of helping to defuse a series of pressure points, only to be disrupted by a showdown over Iran’s nuclear program.