Overview
- Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Putin will not attend in person and said Russia will be represented at a worthy level.
- Moscow will announce later who will lead the Russian delegation to the Johannesburg summit on November 22–23.
- South African presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said the crisis in Ukraine will be on the G20 agenda.
- The summit will conclude with the G20 presidency transferring from South Africa to the United States.
- Coverage notes a pattern of avoided travel to ICC-member hosts, including the 2023 BRICS summit in South Africa and last year's G20 in Brazil, even as some ICC members such as Mongolia and Tajikistan did not execute the warrant during visits.