The meeting of Group of 20 foreign ministers began on the Indonesian island of Bali Friday, with Washington and Moscow's top diplomats attending the same talks for the first time since the Ukraine crisis began.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived for talks with their counterparts from the world's top economies for day-long meetings expected to produce tense exchanges between Moscow and Western nations. They are not expected to meet directly.