Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian foreign ministry, reacted to the statement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to which Russia was isolated at the G20 forum, and Russian FM Sergey Lavrov left the meeting ahead of time.

"This is the same Secretary of State Blinken who said that 'everyone who knows [US President Joe] Biden realizes that he speaks clearly, comprehensibly, and on his own behalf.'

It is you, Mr. Blinken, who put yourself into self-isolation by skipping a series of forum events where the majority didn't even remember you. And now you invent stories to justify your own failure.

After all, we were told how you personally indiscriminately ask everyone to ‘isolate’ Russia. And everyone you ask laughs behind your back, knowing that the current [US] Administration is doomed to an inglorious end," Zakharova wrote on Telegram.