Zakharova: Western countries "incited" their media to come up with a boycott of Russia at the G20

As Zakharova said on Channel One, initially a number of Western countries, primarily the United States and Canada, proposed to exclude Russia from the G20 altogether, but other countries did not agree to this.

“After that, they switched to a different tactic: when in practice the boycott simply failed and turned into just a boycott or self-isolation of the G7, then they simply set the Western media incited to report the topic of the boycott, worked out.

They came up with at least virtually, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

Earlier, Zakharova called nonsense the words of German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock about the unpreparedness of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for dialogue at the summit in Indonesia.