US Secretary of State called for Russia to stop blocking Ukraine's export grains when speaking at the G20 conference in Indonesia.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized Moscow causing a global food and energy crisis in today's speech at the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Bali, Indonesia, according to an anonymous Western official.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the G20 Foreign Ministers Conference in Bali, Indonesia, July 8.

Send Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not their country.

Mr. Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and his colleagues participated in the exchanges that lasted all day in the first time the leadership of the diplomatic sector of the two countries had met since Russia launched a military campaign in Ukraine on 24

Indonesia, the nation chaired the conference, called for the end of the Russian -Ukraine conflict through negotiations.

Our responsibility is to end the conflict earlier, resolving disagreements on the negotiating table, not on the battlefield, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said.

Before the conference, Mr. Blinken met French and German counterparts with a senior British official to consider how to solve concerns about the Russian global food security intentionally aimed at the Ukrainian agriculture.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov immediately announced he would not run after the US to negotiate.

Western partners are trying to avoid discussing global economic issues, Mr. Lavrov said.

If the West wants Ukraine to defeat Russia like that, we have nothing to negotiate with the West, Mr. Lavrov adds and emphasizes that the West is preventing Kiev looking for a peace agreement.

The G20 conference was shaded by the news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while campaigning.

The Russian Foreign Minister said that the West would deviate at the G20 Conference, emphasizing that he would not chase the US to search for dialogue.

The White House informed Indonesia that Russia should not be invited to join this year's G20 summit, although Jakarta said Putin had accepted.