Russian foreign minister dismisses ‘frenzied’ criticism of the war in Ukraine
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrives for a bilateral meeting at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on July 8 2022. Picture: REUTERS/WILLY KURNIAWAN
Indonesia urged the G20 on Friday to help end the war, at a meeting that put foreign ministers from some of the staunchest critics of Russia’s invasion in the same room as Moscow’s top diplomat.He said the West’s discussion “strayed almost immediately, as soon as they took the floor, to the frenzied criticism of the Russian Federation in connection with the situation in Ukraine”.
In a hawkish speech to parliamentary leaders more than four months into the war, Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and the prospects for negotiation would grow dimmer the longer the conflict dragged on. Russia abandoned the island at the end of June in what it said was a gesture of goodwill — a victory for Ukraine that Kyiv hoped could loosen Moscow's blockade of Ukrainian ports.
Johnson’s resignation comes at a time of domestic turmoil in some other European countries that support Kyiv and doubts about their staying power for what has become a protracted conflict.After failing to quickly take the capital Kyiv, Russia is now engaged in a war of attrition in Ukraine's eastern, industrial heartland of the Donbas, made up of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
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