Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not leave the meeting room at the G20 summit during the virtual performance of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Bloomberg reports with reference to sources.
According to the interlocutors of the agency, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, after the speech, announced the unreasonableness of the demands put forward by Zelensky.
In addition, G20 participants did not boycott the performance of Lavrov himself, who once again declared that Russia in Ukraine was “fighting the Nazis.”
Speaking at the G20, the President of Ukraine accused Russia of violating territorial sovereignty, announced the impossibility of new Minsk agreements. In his “formula of the world” for Ukraine, Zelensky listed, including energy and food security, the withdrawal of troops, the restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the liberation of all prisoners, the prevention of further escalation and fixing the end of the conflict.
The G20 summit takes place on Bali on November 15-16. According to Kyodo, the organizers of the G20 summit canceled a group photo due to the refusal of the leaders of the United States and European countries to be photographed with laurel.