Russian President Vladimir Putin gained’t journey to Bali to take part in subsequent week’s G20 summit, Moscow’s embassy to Indonesia confirmed in a single day on Thursday.
International Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation as an alternative, the Russian Embassy’s chief of protocol Yulia Tomskaya informed AFP. “President Putin’s program remains to be being labored out, he may take part nearly,” she added.
The affirmation that Putin gained’t be touring to the G20 comes after months of hypothesis concerning the president’s plans for the summit — and amid information on Wednesday that the Kremlin was pulling its troops out of Kherson, the one regional Ukrainian capital Russian troops managed to seize since their full-scale invasion started in February.