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  SINGAPORE — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, an Indonesian minister said Thursday. Russia will be represented at the summit instead by its foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, who   walked out   of G-20 foreign ministers meeting in July following criticism of Russia. Are you on Telegram? Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Putin will not attend because he has already said that he’ll be sending his foreign minister,” Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime and investment affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, told reporters in Bali. “I think that is the highest [Russian official who will attend].” The news, first reported  by CNBC Indonesia , was confirmed to The Washington Post by Pandjaitan’s deputy, and ends months of speculation over whether the G-20 meeting would bring Putin and President Biden together for their first face-to-face meeting since the Russi...

  Ukraine appeared to soften its denials that the missile parts that killed two Polish farmers could have come from its air defenses. So many missiles were fired both by Russia and Ukraine in western Ukraine during the Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure last Tuesday that the parts which hit Poland could have been of either   Russian or Ukrainian origin , Ukraine’s air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said Friday. Are you on Telegram? Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told reporters Friday that around half of Ukraine’s energy system is down as a result of Russian strikes, and that Kyiv, the capital, would see emergency blackouts over the weekend, according to local media reports. In Ukraine, as winter sets in and the season’s first snow fell in Kyiv, “more than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity,” President Volodymyr Zelensky  said  in a nightly address late Thursday. Sweden...