Russian President Vladimir Putin to skip G20 Summit in New Delhi; Here's why
BRICS 15th Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa and addressed the event virtually. In the BRICS 15th Summit the Russian delegation was led by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The development is significant as G20 event will be attended by major leaders of Western countries including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron etc. who have imposed heavy sanctions on Russian for its invasion into Ukraine.
G20 Leader's Summit in New Delhi will be the second consecutive G20 summit Russian President is choosing to skip since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Earlier, he stayed away from the G20 Summit 2022 in Bali, Indonesia and during the 2014 annexation of Crimea also, Vladimir Putin didn't attend the G20 summit.
The international experts have pointed out that Russian President is shying away from the international event especially if they include Western leaders as he doesn't want to engage in a direct faceoff of the leaders of those countries. Vladimir Putin is attracting fresh criticism for the death of Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin with leaders around the world connecting the death with Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived mutiny against the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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