Vladimir Putin to skip G20 summit and potential Joe Biden confrontation

The summit was to have been the first time Biden and Putin would have been together at a gathering since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over Russia’s war in Ukraine, an Indonesian government official has said (Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/ Kremlin Pool/AP)

Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over Russia’s war in Ukraine, an Indonesian government official has said.

The Russian president’s US counterpart Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders are to attend the two-day summit in Bali that starts on November 15.