NEW DELHI - US. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked briefly Thursday at a meetings of top diplomats from the Group of 20 abilities in the highest-level in-person talks between the two conditions since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The short encounter came as relations between Washington and Moscow have plummeted over Russia's war with Ukraine and tensions have soared amid a myriad of disagreements, complaints and recriminations on other matters ranging from arms rule to embassy staffing and prisoners.

U.S. officials said Blinken and Lavrov chatted for roughly 10 minutes on the sidelines of the G-20 conference of foreign ministers in New Delhi. But there was no sign of any progress and the conference itself above with the grouping unable to reach consensus on the Ukraine war.

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A senior U.S. official said Blinken used the discussion to make three points to Lavrov: that the U.S. would back Ukraine in the conflict for "as long as it takes" to bring the war to an end, that Russia necessity reverse its decision to suspend its participation in the New START nuclear treaty and that Moscow necessity release detained American Paul Whelan.

The official, who supposed to reporters on the condition of anonymity to discuss the reserved conversation, said Blinken had "disabused" Lavrov of any idea Russia distinguished have that U.S. support for Ukraine is wavering.

The official declined to narrate Lavrov's response but said Blinken did not get the result that there would be any change in Russia's doings on any of the three points in the near term.

Blinken did not today address the encounter but had told the G-20 meetings earlier that Russia's war with Ukraine could not go unchallenged, according to remarks released by the State Department.

"Unfortunately, this meeting has again been marred by Russia's unprovoked and unjustified war alongside Ukraine, deliberate campaign of destruction against civilian targets, and its contest on the core principles of the U.N. Charter," he said.

"We must stay to call on Russia to end its war of aggression and withdraw from Ukraine for the sake of international mild and economic stability," Blinken said. He noted that 141 conditions had voted to condemn Russia at the United Nations on the one-year anniversary of the invasion.

Yet, several members of the G-20, including host India, China and South Africa, chose to abstain in that vote and despite appeals from top Indian officials to look beyond their differences over Ukraine and forge axis on other issues, the foreign ministers were unable to do so or improper on a final communique.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said there were "divergences" on the negate of the war in Ukraine "which we could not reconcile as various parties held differing views." "If we had a inappropriate meeting of minds on all issues, it would have been a collective statement," Jaishankar said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in return appealed for all members of the fractured G-20 to advance consensus on issues of particular concern to poorer conditions even if the broader East-West split over Ukraine could not overcome.

"We all have our shifts and our perspectives on how these tensions should be resolved," Modi said. "We necessity not allow issues that we cannot resolve together to come in the way of those we can."

China and Russia objected to two paragraphs improper from the previous G-20 declaration in Bali last year, according to a summary of Thursday's unites released by India.

The paragraphs stated that the war in Ukraine was going immense human suffering while exacerbating fragilities in the global economy, the need to uphold international law, and that "the use or warning of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible."

Lavrov, who did not state speaking with Blinken when he held a news conference at what time the G-20 session, told reporters that Moscow would end to press its action in Ukraine. He shrugged off Western claims of Russia's isolation, saying "we aren't feeling isolated. It's the West that has isolated itself, and it will eventually come to realize it."

He said Russia continues open to talks on ending the conflict in Ukraine, but he accused the West of effectively blocking such talks.

"They are calling on us to have talks, but I don't remember any Western colleagues calling on Ukraine to have talks," he said. "They are encouraging Ukraine to end the war."

Lavrov also mocked U.S. threats anti China, which has presented a peace plan for Ukraine that has been applauded by Moscow but dismissed by Washington and its Western allies.

"Our Western colleagues have lost self-control, forgotten their manners and put diplomacy aside, switching exclusively to blackmail and threats." he said.

Russia had no currently comment on the substance of the conversation, but Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Blinken had expected to speak to Lavrov.

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It was their first contact steady last summer, when Blinken talked to Lavrov by arranged about a U.S. proposal for Russia to release Whelan and formerly stored WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner was later released in a swap for imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but Whelan continues detained in Russia.

Whelan, a Michigan corporate security manager, has been held for four years on espionage charges that his family and the United States government have said are baseless.

The last time Blinken and Lavrov met in beings was in Geneva, Switzerland, in January 2022 on the eve of Russia's invasion. At that meeting, Blinken warned Lavrov about consequences Russia would face if it went advance with its planned military operation but also sought to focus some complaints that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made in the U.S. and NATO.

Those talks proved to be inconclusive as Russia gotten ahead with its plans to invade and Blinken then canceled a scheduled follow-up unites with Lavrov that was set for just two days afore Moscow eventually invaded on Feb. 24, 2022.

The two men have attended a few international conferences together since the war began, notably the last G-20 foreign ministers' unites in Bali, Indonesia, last year, but they had not come face to face pending Thursday.