Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in New Delhi to attend the G20 summit head of the Russian delegation in the absence of President Vladimir Putin.

As Russian diplomacy has announced, Lavrov to deliver speeches at two plenary sessions of G20 summit tomorrow Saturday and Sunday. The Kremlin has said that Putin will not intervene in the meeting, even via video conference.

“We are working closely with all G20 countries (…) against attempts to explain global humanitarian and economic problems only by the war in Ukraine (…),” the Russian Foreign Ministry said before Lavrov’s arrival in New Delhi .

According to the statement, the war in Ukraine “was provoked and continues to be instigated by the Americans to the detriment of European security”.

“The G7 countries (mainly the US, Britain, Germany and France) are putting pressure on India in seeking to articulate their unilateral approaches to the situation around Ukraine in the documents to be approved at the end of the G20 summit,” Russian diplomacy claimed.

Divisions in the ranks of the G20 on geopolitical issues, and in particular regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, complicate the drafting of a possible joint communique.