German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he regretted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision not to attend the G20 summit in Bali next week, where he would have had to face fierce criticism of the war he launched in Ukraine. “It would have been good if President Putin had gone to the G20 summit,” Scholz said while in Hanoi, Vietnam. “But then he would have had to expose himself to all the questions and all the criticism that has been formulated by many countries in the world. That’s probably why he’s not here.” Scholz and other leaders of the G20 group of advanced economies are due to meet on t…