# G20 cancels group photo after Europe snubs Russia’s Lavrov

https://mins.news/en/video/123404

- DW News, 2026-10-31 03:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0crjoBtlZQ

> European ministers were prepared to sit at the same G20 table as Sergei Lavrov but declined to pose with him. The US then scrapped the customary group photo in Atlanta. DW asked Russian foreign policy expert Mark Katz whether the move put meaningful pressure on Moscow or showed that Russia’s international isolation had reached its limits.

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