the russian government denotes the one aimed at by the USA exclusion of the country from the Ggroup of the twenty most important industrial and emerging countriesr than insignificant. “The G20 format is important, but under the current circumstances, when most of the participants are in an economic state of war with us, nothing bad will happen,” said President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
He described US warnings against Russian use of chemical weapons in Ukraine as a tactical manoeuvre. It only serves to divert attention from issues uncomfortable for the US, says the spokesman for the presidential office in Moscow. The military will now become President Putin suggestions submit, how Russia should react to the strengthening of NATO’s eastern flank, he says in a conference call with journalists. Peskov said there was no official statement on whether Russia would rebuild Ukrainian cities like Mariupol.