On July 12, ambassadors representing the seven largest advanced economies in the world – the G-7 – issued a joint statement in response to a recent video address by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. In his address, the president announced amendments to Ukraine’s “lustration” laws, which would ban most high-ranking government officials from holding important official positions for up to 10 years, including all members of the Cabinet and all 450 members of Parliament who had held positions from February 23, 2014, to May 19, 2019. In their joint statement, the G-7 ambassadors reminded their Ukrainian ally that while “electoral change and political rotation are the norm in democracies…, indiscriminate bans on all participants in executive and legislative governance are not,” adding that “the situation in Ukraine today is, in our conviction, not comparable to that after the Revolution of Dignity.”