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Rishi Sunak said ‘countries should not invade their neighbours’ as he condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the G20 summit in Bali.
Facing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the PM called on Moscow to ‘get out of Ukraine and end this barbaric war’ as he blamed the conflict for worsening global economic challenges.
He criticised President Vladimir Putin for shunning the meeting, saying: ‘Maybe if he had, we could get on with sorting things out’.
The two-day gathering of leaders of the world’s major economies was opened by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who said the world would struggle to move forward ‘if the war does not end’.