Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Friday in Atlanta on the sidelines of a G20 meeting, and Motegi demanded the immediate release of a Japanese national detained in Russia's Sakhalin region, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Japan Times.

According to TASS, the last time the two countries' foreign ministers held direct face-to-face talks was in September 2021.