After the failure of the meeting with Trump! Sergey Lavrov appears to have fallen out of favor in the Kremlin

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appears to have fallen out of favor in the Kremlin after an unsuccessful conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which provoked the failure of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, writes The Moscow Times, quoted by Focus.

76-year-old Lavrov, who has headed the Foreign Ministry for more than 20 years, did not appear at the landmark meeting of the Russian Security Council, which Putin held on November 5.

At the meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council, including Lavrov, Putin instructed to develop proposals for the resumption of nuclear tests, which Russia last conducted in 1990. Lavrov "was absent by agreement" from the meeting, a source in "Kommersant" reports. Moreover, the Foreign Minister was the only permanent member of the Security Council who missed the landmark meeting.

At the same time, Lavrov lost his status as head of the Russian delegation at the G-20 summit. This year, it will be headed by the deputy head of the presidential administration, Maxim Oreshkin, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced on Thursday. According to him, the decision to appoint Oreshkin was made by Putin.

The president himself once again did not decide to fly to the G-20 summit, which will be held in South Africa this year – a country that signed the Rome Statute and has the obligation to arrest Putin on the order of the International Criminal Court.

In 2025, due to the ICC order, Putin did not decide to fly to Brazil – for the BRICS meeting. And in 2022, he missed the G-20 meeting in Bali. In both cases, it was Lavrov who headed the Russian delegation.

A veteran of Russian diplomacy, former permanent representative of Russia to the UN Security Council, Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Rubio on October 21, during which they were to discuss the conditions of the upcoming summit between Putin and Trump in Budapest. However, Rubio recommended that Trump cancel the meeting, and the failure of the meeting was followed by US sanctions against – Rosneft – and – the first since Trump returned to the White House.

Reuters sources familiar with the situation claim that the reason was the Kremlin's uncompromising position, which "wanted too much" and refused to cease fire in Ukraine.

Lavrov himself, after the failed conversation with Rubio, again spoke of a "Nazi regime" in Kiev and demanded that the "root causes of the conflict" be eliminated. An immediate ceasefire would result in most of Ukraine "remaining under the leadership of the Nazi regime", and the West would once again "fill" the Ukrainian Armed Forces with weapons for "terrorist acts in the form of attacks on Russia's civilian infrastructure", Lavrov claims.