Zelensky told Lula da Silva that he wants to visit Brazil

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wants to pay an official visit to Brazil and has already announced his desire to his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva. Andriy Yermak, head of Zelensky’s apparatus, was responsible for “delivering the message.”

In a telephone call on Tuesday and supported this Wednesday by sources in the Brazilian presidency, Hiermac expressed to Celso Amorim, Lula da Silva’s special adviser on international affairs, Zelensky’s willingness to travel to Brasilia and meet with the Brazilian president. with whom he had lately been in a relationship marked more by disagreements than by coincidences. The visit would be a way to try to bridge the recent differences and, who knows, try to get Lula da Silva to have a more favorable stance towards Ukraine than the Brazilian has shown.

In controversial statements made in April, namely during a trip to China and the United Arab Emirates, Lula accused Ukraine, which was invaded by Russian troops on February 24, 2022, of having as much responsibility in the war that it leads today, as does Russia, which invaded it. . In May, during the G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, which both attended as special guests, Lula and Zelensky were once again lit up in yet another moment of disharmony, when the Brazilian took too long to accept the Ukrainian’s request for a parallel meeting between them. ..and, faced with contempt, Zelenskiy later did not accept the costly schedules proposed by Lula’s advisers.

In a visit that the Brazilian government has apparently shown little interest in, Zelenskiy, who travels the world trying to get more support for Ukraine, will try to reach Latin America through the region’s greatest power, Brazil. In addition, by officially visiting Brazil, the Ukrainian will try to force Lulu, as part of the usual diplomatic reciprocity, to visit Ukraine, which the Brazilian recently refused.

Lula has done everything to gain recognition in the international arena as a statesman capable of promoting peace between Ukraine and Russia, despite the fact that he received with pomp Russian Defense Minister Sergey Lavrov, who constantly reaffirms his neutrality in the conflict, so that the negotiator, he rejected allied calls to supply Ukrainians with arms and ammunition and declined both Zelenskiy’s invitation to visit Ukraine and his friend Vladimir Putin’s to visit Russia, but neither side was thrilled with the deal’s plan and the Brazilian president’s aspirations. After trying unsuccessfully to get Lula to take a more supportive stance towards Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants to use his hitherto unlikely visit to Brasilia to pull Brazil out of this neutrality that has shamefully refrained Brazilian diplomats from important voices in international bodies when they are trying to condemn Russia more harshly.