The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of hypocrisy after the US Secretary of State’s statement Anthony Blinken that Russia cannot be allowed to wage war in Ukraine with impunity, during a security forum in New Delhi today.

Top diplomats from Moscow and Washington both attended the Group of Twenty (G20) foreign ministers’ meeting earlier this week in the Indian capital and they met in person for the first time after Russian forces invaded Ukrainea year ago.

“If we allow Russia to do with impunity what it is doing in Ukraine, then that will be a message to those who aspire to attack elsewhere that they can do it and get away with it too,” Blinken said at the strategic affairs forum Dialogue of Raisina.

Speaking at the same strategic affairs forum after Blinken, Lavrov said it was “double standards” to criticize Russia’s actions in Ukrainewhen the US has invoked “threats to its national interests” to justify military interventions in various parts of the world, including the war in Iraq, airstrikes in Libya and the bombing of Yugoslavia during the 1999 Kosovo conflict. Lavrov also said the question of when Russia will negotiate an end to the war should be put to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Everyone is asking when Russia will negotiate … the West keeps saying it’s not yet time to negotiate because Ukraine has to win on the battlefield before any negotiations,” he said.

“And Zelensky himself, no one calls Zelensky to ask him when he will negotiate. But you should know, in preparation for this issue at this meeting, that last September Zelensky signed a decree making it a criminal offense to negotiate with Russia while Vladimir Putin is president. So you can address this issue to him, you can ask him what he’s doing.”

At the G20, the US and its allies called on member countries to continue pressuring Russia to end the conflict, but the G20 failed to agree on a joint declaration on the war due to opposition from China and Russia.

The Russian minister went on to accuse Washington of “trying to militarize” the Quadrilateral Security Dialoguea partnership between the US, Australia, India and Japan that focuses on strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific region.

Earlier today, Blinken met with his counterparts at the Quad, as the partnership is informally called, and they issued a statement saying that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is unacceptable”.