OREANDA-NEWS French President Emmanuel Macron shook hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. This is reported by Bloomberg.

"Macron sought out Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and shook his hand at the G-20 summit," the agency reports.

Earlier, Sergey Lavrov arrived at the site of the G20 summit, which is taking place in Brazil on November 18-19.

Also during the summit, US President Joe Biden publicly supported Ukraine in the presence of Lavrov. "Washington strongly supports Kiev," he said, addressing, among other things, the head of Russian diplomacy, who was sitting opposite.