Live Updates | Spain backs G7 on help for Ukraine, as Italy presses NATO on Mediterranean migrants

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says his country will sign on to a Group of Seven declaration on security guarantees for Ukraine. Spain isn’t a G-7 nation but has helped Ukraine with military and humanitarian aid, including Leopard tanks. Sánchez’s government also announced on Wednesday that it plans to deploy some 700 troops to Slovakia, which borders Ukraine, to lead a NATO combat group. Separately, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni noted that the war in Ukraine has had “important repercussions on developing countries” and said she requested “greater attention to the southern flank” of Europe, which includes Spain.