WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and other top finance and central banking officials walked out of a meeting of the group of 20 major economies when the Russian delegation started speaking, laying bare the fracturing among the world’s most powerful economies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov virtually joined the G-20 meeting, which is taking place in Washington this week during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, according to people familiar with the meeting. Along with the officials who walked out of the meeting, some others who had joined virtually turned off their cameras when Mr. Siluanov started speaking, according to one of the people.!–>!–>
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