Russian President Vladimir Putin is not going to be going to the G20 summit in India in early September in individual.

Such a go to is at present not on the calendar, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Friday in Moscow.

Pattern of non-attendance

Peskov added that Putin had simply attended a gathering of leaders from the BRICS group of rising economies in South Africa by video hyperlink, not in individual. The type of his participation within the G20 summit is to be clarified later, the spokesman stated.

The assembly will happen on September 9 and 10 in New Delhi. Putin additionally didn’t fly to Indonesia for the G20 summit final 12 months.

War crime allegations

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrests warrants in March for Putin and Russia’s kids commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of illegally deporting lots of of kids from Ukraine, which is a warfare crime.

The Kremlin strenuously denies the accusations. Russia, which isn’t a member of the ICC, insists the warrant towards Putin is “void”.

However, the warrant implies that the Russian president dangers arrest if he travels overseas regardless of warnings that this may be thought of an act of warfare by Moscow.

dh/rc (Reuters, dpa)