As the G20 summit begins in Indonesia’s Bali, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has denounced Russia’s “barbaric” war in Ukraine.
Sunak said the “Putin regime stifled domestic dissent” and constructed “a veneer of validity only through violence.”
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Vladimir Putin decided not to attend, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was in the room listening to Sunak’s remarks, BBC reported.
Sunak also stated that he thought China presented a “systematic challenge” to the UK’s values, but he did not make it clear whether he would reclassify China as a “threat” to national security, like his predecessor Liz Truss had.
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