Lula’s government has avoided direct condemnation of Russia for the invasion and has even suggested that Ukraine, ruled by Zelensky, may also have some responsibility in the conflict.
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, assured this Friday, April 7, that order will return to his country “only when the Ukrainian flag returns to Crimea” and there is freedom there. His pronouncement comes hours after Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, suggested that Kiev should negotiate and cede the territory of the Crimean peninsula to Moscow to stop the war, which has been going on for a year and almost two months.
“The world should know: respect and order will return to international relations only when the Ukrainian flag returns to Crimea, when there is freedom there, like everywhere else in Ukraine,” Zelensky said in his usual late-night speech.
In this sense, the Ukrainian president alluded to Crimea when commenting that his country has added “a new tradition of respect to the official life of our state”, in relation to the Muslim community in that region.
This Thursday, April 6, during a meeting with journalists at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Lula da Silva pointed out that “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin cannot keep the territory of Ukraine. Maybe Crimea will be discussed. But what invaded again, you have to rethink. Zelensky cannot want everything either.
At the end of March, in an official note, the Brazilian Presidency indicated that Lula, in what was his first conversation with the Ukrainian president, stressed that “Brazil defends the territorial integrity of Ukraine” and that he had already discussed the issue with the leaders of the United States, Germany and France.
“I reaffirmed Brazil’s desire to talk with other countries and participate in any initiative regarding the construction of peace and dialogue,” Lula reported on his social networks, adding that “war cannot be of interest to anyone.”
Lula has so far avoided direct condemnation of Russia for the invasion and has even suggested that Ukraine may also bear some responsibility in the conflict. However, he has insisted that the entire international community must work for a peaceful solution.
With information from the EFE Agency and the Deutsche Welle.
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