On Friday, the White House said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should attend the G20 summit in Bali if Vladimir Putin comes there, after the Indonesian president said the Russian president plans to attend the G20 summit in person..

" But if Putin does get involved, the US believes Zelensky should get involved too..

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Thursday that he expects Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the November summit.. The US and its allies are pushing for Putin to be treated like a pariah after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but countries like Indonesia and India disagree..

Xi Jinping is coming. President Putin also told me that he would come,” Jokowi, as the president is known, said in an interview with Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwaite.. This was the first time the leader of the world's fourth most populous country confirmed that they were both planning to appear at the November summit..

As suggested by the publication, President Volodymyr Zelensky may join the summit virtually, rather than attend in person. Following the example of Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who spoke remotely at a meeting of G-20 foreign ministers in July.

Biden has yet to say if he will travel to Bali for the conference, although U.S.

officials attended meetings ahead of the leaders' summit.. Biden and Xi also told their aides to schedule a face-to-face meeting, which would be their first face-to-face conversation since Biden became president..

In March, Biden said he thought Russia should be excluded from the G-20 over its invasion of Ukraine, but acknowledged that other members of the group, including Indonesia, might disagree.. White House officials said they privately conveyed to Indonesia their desire for Russia not to be present..