British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and his Canada counterpart Chrystia Freeland walked out of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington to protest Ukraine’s attack when a Russian envoy spoke on Thursday, a British finance ministry spokeswoman said. Before leaving, Sunak “described (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s attack on Ukraine as an attack on the laws and principles that underpin our economic life,” a spokesman said. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who left the G20 summit in Washington on Wednesday for the same reason, said on Thursday there should be no “consolation” for Russia because of the economic crisis caused by the Ukraine invasion.
The G20 includes Western countries that have blamed Moscow for war crimes in Ukraine, as well as China, India, Indonesia and South Africa who did not join Western-led sanctions against Russia because of the conflict. G20 finance ministers and central bank governors met on the sidelines of an annual conference hosted by the IMF and the World Bank in Washington, Washington, Ukraine, food security and ongoing recovery from the coronavirus epidemic.
After Freeland Canadian returned to the summit, he spoke directly with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who was on hand, according to a source close to the conference. It is perverse and absurd to hear you speak today when your war is making us suffer, ”he said, according to a source.
“Your war causes food prices to rise and will starve people. Your war causes the prices of electricity to go up. Your war creates a climate of inflation, which is detrimental to the most vulnerable. ”The Canadian Ministry of Finance declined to comment.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special mission” that it says is not designed to take over, but to undermine the military power of its southern neighbor and hold what it sees as dangerous nationalist extremists. Freeland, a native of Ukraine and a national activist, went on to describe how women are “victims of this war”.”Rape is systematically used as a weapon of war by Russia,” Freeland said, according to a source.
Speaking to Siluanov by name, he concluded that Ukraine would win the war and “Russia and the Russian leadership will fully take responsibility for the crimes committed today.”Earlier on Thursday, Britain pressed trade sanctions on Russia, focusing on luxury goods including caviar, silver and diamonds on foreign bans and higher taxes, seeking to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
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