BARI, Italy — Leaders of the G7 group of nations have decided Thursday to grant Ukraine a new $50 billion loan using profits from frozen Russian assets, a move United States President Joe Biden said showed Moscow "we're not backing down."

The US president and other G7 leaders agreed at a summit in Italy to use the profits from the interest on the assets to subsidize the loan to provide help this year to Kyiv.

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