President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed his participation in the G20 summit in Bali in November and hopes that russia will be excluded from the event due to the war in Ukraine.
He said this during a speech at the Indonesian think tank "Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia".
Zelenskiy thanked Indonesian President Joko Vidodi for the invitation and outlined an amount of "homework" for the meeting.
"We accept this invitation, and I believe that by the autumn summit the world will solve all these problems: we must prevent large-scale famine, stop killings and repressions, we must forever wean any country in the world from nuclear blackmail and flirting with the threat of chemical or biological weapons," the president said.
Zelenskiy also expressed hope that the summit will be "only friendly states, partners and there will be no occupiers."
The chairman of the G20 and Indonesian President Joko Vidodo invited Zelenskiy to take part in the summit.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the United States and its allies are pressuring Indonesia, which is hosting the G20 summit, to invite Ukraine as a guest, and is demanding russia's exclusion from the organization, although other countries, including China, oppose the move.
US President Joe Biden has said he will not attend the G20 summit if putin is there.
In late April, the Indonesian president also said he had invited the russian president to the summit. If he comes, it could be Zelenskiy's and Putin's first meeting since the 2019 Normandy Four summit.