Russian President Vladimir Putin MOSCOW, 5 May. The invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Indonesia was a headache for US President Joe Biden, writes The Washington Post. Biden, «the article notes. Now he faces a difficult choice whether to participate in the G20 summit, which Putin may attend, or to cede one of the main international events to Russia and China, the author writes. As noted in the article, Biden cannot afford allow such an event to be missed in Asia, as the effects of the pandemic are still reverberating on world trade today, and inflation has become a common problem. The publication believes that the White House can make it so that Putin and Biden are rarely in the same photo. At the same time, one should not forget that a group photo of world leaders is taken at the G20, and besides, there can be awkward and unplanned meetings at the summit, the journalist summarizes. />TAC: America will have to pay for Biden's insults to PutinIndonesia is chairing the G20 this year. Some of the member countries, primarily the United States, demanded that Russia be excluded from the group because of a military special operation in Ukraine, but other states do not agree with such a formulation of the issue. The Indonesian President, for his part, said that Jakarta intends to unite the G20 and opposes a split. Therefore, at the end of April, according to Agence France-Presse, he invited the presidents of Russia and Ukraine to the summit.
In turn, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow would prepare for the G20 summit, but it was too early to talk about the details.Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. .jpg» />The President of Indonesia explained Zelensky's invitation to the G20 summit
