Empty chairs and blank screens at the G20 in protest against Russia.
When Moscow Finance Minister Anton Siluanov takes the floor, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Ukrainian counterpart Serhiy Marchenko get up and leave the room, followed by several ministers and governors including ECB President Christine Lagarde .
Others present virtually turn off the cameras on their screens.
The European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni also leaves the table.
The Italian delegation, made up of Minister Daniele Franco and Governor Ignazio Visco, remained instead to carry out its institutional role as a member of the troika together with Indonesia and India.
A stay that was an opportunity to publicly blame Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Other countries followed the path of Italy and sat listening to Moscow.
Among these were Japan and Spain while for Germany, president of the G7, he remained the finance minister.
Christian Lindner himself explained his choice to remain as dictated by the desire not to leave Russia a platform to "spread its propaganda and its lies".
A reaction therefore in no particular order that of the G20 in the face of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
The protest choices of individual countries risk slipping the forum into a profound crisis.
Back in vogue in 2008, the G20 format has established itself for years as a privileged stage able to better represent the new world economy compared to the brothers of the G7 and G8.
The war, however, has changed the cards on the table by dividing it and creating rifts that many observers ask themselves if they can be healed or not.
The request to expel Russia from the forum, put forward by US President Joe Biden, fits precisely into this picture of tensions, with Western countries intent on isolating and punishing Russia and President Vladimir Putin for war.
And a high cost to Moscow is on the horizon,
"War is incompatible with cooperation", thundered French finance minister Bruno Le Maire as he opened the G20 proceedings in Washington, the first since the invasion began.
Le Maire was one of the delegates to leave the work along with Fed President Jerome Powell, representatives of Great Britain and Canadian Vice Premier Chrystia Freeland.
Kristalina Georgieva's tones are much more cautious.
Pressed on the effectiveness and usefulness of the G20, the director of the International Monetary Fund said: "cooperation must continue and will continue" also because the world is so interdependent and the challenges are so vast that no country can face them or find solutions to alone.
As the number one in an institution that counts 190 countries,
However, Georgieva admits that when there are tensions, collaborating is "more difficult but not impossible".
You therefore warn about the risks of a geopolitical fragmentation that would risk burning all the progress of the last 75 years.
Real fears that, however, almost 60 days after the invasion began and the start of the second phase of Putin's offensive, fail to dampen the anger and indignation at the shocking images of Bucha and Mariupol.
And the willingness to make Moscow pay a high price despite the cost to the global economy.
almost 60 days after the invasion began and the second phase of Putin's offensive started, they are unable to dampen anger and indignation at the shocking images of Bucha and Mariupol.
And the willingness to make Moscow pay a high price despite the cost to the global economy.
almost 60 days after the invasion began and the second phase of Putin's offensive started, they are unable to dampen anger and indignation at the shocking images of Bucha and Mariupol.
And the willingness to make Moscow pay a high price despite the cost to the global economy.