2023-08-07 01:35:00
Volodimir Zelenski accused this Sunday his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of “match the narratives” of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and “hoped” that the head of state of Brazil “has his own opinion.” His words come after the Brazilian president stated that neither Russia nor Ukraine want peace “while people continue to die.”
“I don’t know why it has to match the narratives” of PutinZelensky said during an interview with the agency EFE and with various Latin American media in kyiv, Ukraine, when asked about the statements made this week by the Brazilian president.
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Added to this, the Ukrainian president maintained that Russian leader “is no different from any colonizer”at the same time that he affirmed that he “constantly lies and manipulates” and that “he is killing our children and raping our women.”
“I hope (Lula) has his own opinion. It does not seem necessary to me that his thoughts coincide with the thoughts of President Putin,” added Zelenski, who stated that statements like those of the Brazilian leader “do not help to bring any peace.”
Lula affirmed that neither Russia nor Ukraine want peace “while people continue to die”
In addition, he insisted on inviting Lula to meet with him to talk in person about what is happening in Ukraine, something to which the Brazilian president has not agreed at the moment. “To be honest, if President Lula wants to tell me something, let him sit (with me) and tell me,” Zelenski said. And he added: “I thought I had a broader understanding of the world.”
On various occasions, Lula postulated himself as a potential mediator between Ukraine and Russia. In this sense, the Brazilian president asked that the talks between the two countries begin now in the current circumstances, while Zelenski refused to sit down to talk until Russia withdraws its troops from the territories it occupies in Ukraine. Added to this, on several occasions Lula chose not to condemn the Russian invasion and even blamed his Ukrainian counterpart for the war.
Last April, during his trip to China and the United Arab Emirates, the Brazilian president stated that The United States should stop “incentivizing” war and “start talking about peace”, as well as the European Union, and insisted on pointing them out for “contributing” to the continuation of the conflict by sending arms to Ukraine. Although his government condemned the invasion of Ukraine at the UN, he also sided with Russia’s positions by voting in favor of an investigation into the attack on the Nordstream gas pipeline, which occurred last September.
The request for help to Latin America
In addition to referring to the statements of his Brazilian counterpart, Zelensky asked the leaders and peoples of Latin America to help their country in a humanitarian and political way.in order to continue fighting against the “colonialism” of Russia, which, as denounced, is extracting enormous natural and economic resources from the occupied Ukraine.
In this sense, the president pointed out that Russia is collecting and exporting grain and other agricultural products from the territories of Ukraine and appealed to Latin America’s experience with colonialism to call for solidarity with the Ukrainian cause. “You know perfectly well what the consequences of colonialism mean,” she said.
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Besides the grain, Zelensky mentioned the destruction of the Azovstal steel plantin the occupied city of Mariupol, and a large part of the steel industry, forcing Ukraine to stop exporting some of the raw materials it sold the most abroad.
“Who controls the mines in the Donbas?” he asked rhetorically, referring to the coal-rich region of eastern Ukraine partially occupied by Russia since 2014. “That’s colonialism”sentenced the president.
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Likewise, he called to be vigilant before the action of Russian propaganda in Latin America and called for “more information” as an antidote to the speeches that hold Ukraine responsible for the war. In this regard, the Ukrainian head of state warned of the prevalence of messages promoted by the Kremlin on social networks and through platforms such as RT, which is prohibited in Europe but continues to operate in Latin America.
“Russia spends millions on this activity,” he declared, adding that Ukraine does not have “so many financial means” to get its messages across to audiences in Latin America and other parts of the world. For this reason, she assured that it is essential to “understand” that the war comes from “an unprovoked aggression” so that the countries of the region, where many leaders have been reluctant to support Ukraine and break relations with Moscow, increase their assistance to Ukraine.
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