PM goes eye-to-eye with Putin’s stooge
RUSSIA’S representative at the G20 summit was stared down by Rishi Sunak yesterday as the Prime Minister attacked Vladimir Putin for not turning up.
Mr Sunak glared at Russian foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov as the gathering began officially.
He said: ‘It is notable that Putin didn’t feel able to join us here. Maybe if he had, we could get on with sorting things out.
‘Because the single biggest difference that anyone could make is for Russia to get out of Ukraine and end this barbaric war.’
In a bizarre response, Lavrov asked how England would feel if its language was banned in Ireland. ‘It didn’t make a huge amount of sense,’ an insider said.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared via video link and said he was glad to be addressing the ‘G19’ – refusing to recognise Russia as a member.