"Stop the war. Not in a month or a year, but today”

At the G-20 meeting of economic powers, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Russia to end the war of aggression against Ukraine. “Stop this war. Stop violating our international order. Stop the bombing of Ukrainian cities and civilians," the Greens politician demanded on Thursday at meetings of the G-20 foreign ministers in India's capital, New Delhi, according to information from delegation circles. She turned directly to Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

"It is good that you are here in the hall to listen," Baerbock said to the Russian minister. "Stop the war. Not in a month or a year, but today." She added: "Because every family that loses a father, a brother, a mother, a child loses a whole world." There is no right of the strongest, his little one attacking neighbors. At the G-20 meeting last year, Lavrov left the group of foreign ministers so that he would not have to listen to criticism.

Baerbock pointed out that there are different perspectives on the war in Ukraine among the G20 members. "But what unites us all is that there is not a single place in the world where the Russian war has had positive consequences." This includes Russia itself. This is shown by thousands of people who left Russia and the country's economic data.

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