Russia’s Putin, Ukraine’s Zelensky Agreed To Attend The G20 Summit In Indonesia
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will be on a podium during next month’s G20 summit. The summit will be held in Bali, Indonesia on November 15 and 16. This will be the first time since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February that the heads of state of the two countries will be together and on the same platform.
US President Joe Biden will also attend the Bali Summit of the G20. It is believed that the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi will also reach here. This is also likely because the next G20 summit is to be held in India in 2023.
The UAE website ‘The National’ published a special report on Friday. In this, Indonesian Ambassador to the UAE Hussein Bagis has been told that Putin and Zelensky will attend the G20 summit. Hussain was asked whether the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine would also attend the summit. To this his reply was – Yes, both these leaders are ready to come to Bali.
If Putin and Zelensky travel to Bali, it will be the first time the two leaders would share a platform since the war between Russia and Ukraine began in February.
However, neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian governments reacted to Bagis’s statement.
Meanwhile, Zelensky on Friday called on Brussels to ramp up pressure on Russia’s energy sector, a day after the EU imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
“We must continue moving in this direction — the direction of pressure on the Russian energy sector, on this main source of income of the aggressor state,” Zelensky said in a video address to an EU summit in Prague.
Zelensky also reiterated Kyiv’s calls to “demilitarise” Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe’s largest nuclear facility – that is located in territory Moscow claimed to have annexed.