Treasury ministers and central bankers of the US, Ukraine and several EU countries left the G20 meeting when the representative of the Russian Federation began to speak. This is reported by the Washington Post and Bloomberg, citing their own sources..

In particular, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the head of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde joined the boycott of Russia..

According to sources, high-ranking officials of the economic industry from the Netherlands, Great Britain, France and Germany also left the meeting.. And some of those who participated in the meeting via video link turned off the cameras during the speech of the Russian official..

The Washington Post noted that several members of the G20 did not join the boycott. In particular, China and India did not..

According to sources, the meeting, among other things, was devoted to the risks to the global economy caused by Russia's war against Ukraine, and how the world should respond to them..

Earlier, during a video conference of the G7 leaders, France declared its readiness to become a security guarantor for Ukraine in exchange for our abandonment of the NATO course..