G20 foreign ministers' talks in Atlanta end without a joint statement after Europe clashes with Russia's Lavrov over Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, as Moscow pointed to a $2.1bn US package of 500 Patriot missiles among the unresolved sanctions and arms sales it said were blocking a broader peace breakthrough.Ed Miliband at the United Kingdom nameplate during the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Atlanta, where Ukraine was not invited despite having attended similar gatherings in previous years.Sergei Lavrov (right), Russia's foreign minister, with a Saudi delegate at the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting, as Moscow blamed Zelenskyy's insistence on acquiring weapons to strike Russian territory for blocking new peace negotiations.
Russia's Lavrov presented "a lot of lies" about the Ukraine war during the G20 foreign ministers' gathering in Atlanta, according to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who said he showed no willingness to engage in peace talks. The two-day summit broke up without a joint communique; Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a chairman's statement in its place, recording no agreements.
Kallas blocked a group photo, saying: 'We must not normalise war crimes around this table.'
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Lavrov directly that he should 'have the courage to tell Putin that Russia will not win this war.'
On the day the talks concluded, the US approved a $2.1 billion package of 500 Patriot PAC-3 interceptors for Ukraine.
