Frost at G20 between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and its western counterparts. The meeting convened in Bali to prepare for the November summit of heads of state and government did not bring the desired results. On the other hand. There was a lot of tension, especially when Lavrov said he was ready to negotiate the passage of Ukrainian wheat before leaving the meeting. Not to mention that Western ministers refused to be photographed with him.
Words of fire would come from the American rival Anton Blinken, who pointed out that this grain did not come from the Russians. So they didn’t really have to block or steal it. Furthermore, after a background of Repubblica, there seems to have been a rather heated exchange of blows between Lavrov and Blinken. Especially the latter would have said: “Ukraine is not your country. His grain is not yours. Why are you blocking the ports? “.
Some UN sources also confirm that the meeting did not go well, after which mediation will continue, although there is no significant turning point in Lavrov’s words at the moment. The statements of the Ukrainian representative were particularly strong Kuleba, who at the meeting accused the Russians of “playing the hunger games with the world, maintaining the blockade of Ukrainian ports with one hand and blaming us with the other.” Putin’s envoy, on the other hand, accused Westerners of “anti-Russianism” and accused the Americans of cutting the threads of diplomatic dialogue.
