‘Strong impression’ Putin will skip G20, Indonesia’s Widodo says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is not expected to attend the upcoming G20 leaders’ summit in Bali, his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo has told the media.Widodo’s comments come after Putin last month said he would “think about” attending the summit, but Russia would “definitely” be represented at a high level.The G20 summit will be the first gathering of the leaders of the world’s biggest economies since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is expected to be dominated by the fallout of the war.Indonesia has rejected calls by Western countries and Ukraine to exclude Russia from the summit, pledging to maintain neutrality and emphasising the potential for cooperation on food and energy security.At the UN General Assembly last month, 16 members of the G20 voted in favour of a resolution condemning Moscow’s attempted annexation of four regions of eastern Ukraine."

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