Russia’s Putin, Ukraine’s Zelensky agree to attend G20 summit in Bali: Report

While US President Joe Biden has now no longer absolutely dominated out the chance of a assembly together along with his Russian counterpart at the sidelines of the approaching G20 summit, a media document suggests that Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky are probably to wait the summit to be held in Indonesia. In an interview with The National, Indonesia’s ambassador to the UAE Husin Bagis stated “each have agreed (to wait)”. The G20 summit is scheduled to take area on November 15-sixteen in Indonesia’s Bali.

“The state of affairs isn’t smooth due to the Ukraine-Russia strugglefare… We are finding out which accommodations to position them up in ― one for Mr Putin and one for Mr Zelensky,” Bagis stated, regarding the want to keep away from anxiety through setting them too near together. “Everything is non violent in my country,” the envoy stated withinside the interview.

On Thursday, whilst requested through newshounds if he might meet Putin at the approaching G20 or APEC summit to talk about Ukraine, Biden stated, “That stays to be seen.” The US president additionally stated Putin’s hazard to apply nuclear guns is the largest such hazard because the Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russia’s navy management confronted a unprecedented home public backlash over the strugglefare in Ukraine. If Putin and Zelensky tour to Bali, it’ll be the primary time the 2 leaders might proportion a platform because the strugglefare among Russia and Ukraine started out in February.

However, neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian governments reacted to Bagis’s statement. Meanwhile, Zelensky on Friday referred to as on Brussels to ramp up strain on Russia’s strength sector, an afternoon after the EU imposed a sparkling spherical of sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. “We should retain transferring on this path — the path of strain at the Russian strength sector, in this primary supply of profits of the aggressor state,” Zelensky stated in a video cope with to an EU summit in Prague.

Zelensky additionally reiterated Kyiv’s calls to “demilitarise” Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant – Europe’s biggest nuclear facility – this is positioned in territory Moscow claimed to have annexed. Putin ordered his authorities this week to take over operations of the plant in southern Ukraine.