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Mr Lavrov is the highest-ranking Russian official attending the G20 summit, which begins on Tuesday.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was taken to hospital after his arrival in Bali for the G20 summit yesterday, the Indonesian authorities have said.

Wayan Koster, the governor of Bali, said he had been taken in for a "check-up" at the Sanglah Hospital in the provincial capital, Denpasar, and was "immediately returned".

Three other Indonesian government and medical officials said he was being treated on the resort island, with two reporting Mr Lavrov was receiving treatment for a heart condition

The Russian foreign ministry dismissed claims that he had been in hospital as "fake news".

In a Telegram post Maria Zakharova, director of the ministry's press department, said: "We can't believe our eyes: it turns out that he is hospitalised. "This is, of course, the aerobatics of fakes. Well, wait, world exclusive."


Ms Zakharova shared a video showing Mr Lavrov, who has been Vladimir Putin's foreign minister since 2004, sitting in his shorts, working on a balcony, according to Sky News Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay.

In the clip, she asks the 72-year-old what he makes of the reports, to which he replies that Western journalists have been falsely writing that Mr Putin was ill for a decade. This is a kind of game that is not new in politics," Mr Lavrov said with an ironic smile.

"Western journalists need to be more truthful - they need to write the truth."


https://news sky com/story/sergei-lavrov-taken-to-hospital-on-arrival-at-g20-12747295

Putin should allow the old man to go and rest.


Oga go an rest u dn old jare, u still get mouth to dismiss the claims.

Amuluonyenaego:
Putin should allow this old man to rest naa

nah him Dey represent Putin at the summit, I believe he’s fit na why dem send am…. Lol
The report about his health na fake news, like another “ghost of kyiv” myth, if you remember how dem Dey write say putin get cancer that he’s dying, that’s western news for you, they thrive on lies

He had no problem... Old age will eventually tell on everyone at one point or the other

The person wey supposed dey church dey pray for forgiveness... He dey coordinate how to bomb Ukraine. Nonsense