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Montevideo, April 16th 2025 - 00:04 UTC

Tag: Ukraine

  • Thursday, June 1st 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Pope Francis and Lula discuss Ukraine and possible trips

    Lula last met with Pope Francis in February, 2020

    Pope Francis and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday discussed the situation in Ukraine during a telephone conversation in which the South American leader invited the Argentine priest to visit his country soon.

  • Saturday, May 27th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Lula not to travel to St Petersburg for Putin meeting

    The Brazilian leader's decision has been regarded as a sign of moderation after failing to meet with Zelensky in Hiroshima

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has become a major player in South American diplomacy lately, but he has been forced to decline an invitation from his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to go to St. Petersburg. “I can't go to Russia now,” Lula said days after a frustrated meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima.

  • Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Lula says Zelensky stood him up

    Lula insisted there was no point in meeting with Zelensky or Putin when “both are convinced that they are going to win the war”

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva said he was supposed to have met with his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky last weekend in Hiroshima but that the European leader must have had more important engagements. “I'm not disappointed, I'm upset,” Lula was quoted as saying while confirming the meeting had been arranged.

  • Tuesday, May 16th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Sunak pledges further help to Ukraine

    “We are here for the long term,” Sunak told Zelensky

    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Monday promised additional military help in the form of missiles and drones to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in London. Zelensy is on a support-gathering tour of Europe which included previous stops in Italy, Germany, and France.

  • Thursday, May 11th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Brazilian envoy meeting Ukrainian officials to devise a peace plan

    Lula described Amorim as “one of the most experienced diplomats in the world”

    Ukrainian diplomat Andrij Melnik Wednesday said Brazil can “play an important role” in stopping the war with Russia ahead of his meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's envoy Celso Amorim in Kyiv.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 14:43 UTC

    Drones crash into Kremlin, Russia accuses Ukraine of attempted Putin's assassination

    Ukraine claims that this could be a false flag attack to justify a Russian escalation. “Russia is preparing a large-scale terrorist attack” warned the advisor to the Ukrainian presidency

    The Kremlin announced on Wednesday that its HQ had been targeted for the first time in the war unleashed against Ukraine. At least two drones reportedly attempted to strike the residence of President Vladimir Putin but were shot down by the residential complex's anti-aircraft defenses, it was reported by the presidential press service.

    Drones crash into Kremlin, Russia accuses Ukraine of attempted Putin's assassination

  • Monday, April 24th 2023 - 16:32 UTC

    Moscow warns Ukraine's Black Sea “export channel” conditioned by West obstacles to Russian trade

    The Ukraine grain Black Sea export deal was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July last year to help tackle a global food crisis

    Moscow warned that the outlook for extending a deal beyond May 18 that allows the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports was “not great” as Russia’s own such exports still faced obstacles.

  • Monday, April 24th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    Portugal and Brazil do not think alike regarding Ukraine

    “Portugal's position is different,” President Rebelo de Sousa told Lula. Photo: Paulo Novais / AFP

    While Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted in Lisbon on the need for a “negotiated” peace between Russia and Ukraine, his Portuguese hosts were quick to show their disagreement with an initiative that could “benefit the offender.”

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Lula's stance could jeopardize Mercosur-EU deal

    Commentators on Brazil's opposition media Jovem Pan this week even suggested Lula seeking the Nobel Peace Prize would be a good explanation

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's stance on the war in Ukraine might jeopardize the Mercosur-European Union deal, according to a confidential report drafted ahead of a European foreign ministers' summit and accessed by Politico.

  • Monday, April 17th 2023 - 15:52 UTC

    Ukraine rejects Lula's peace initiative to end the Kyiv/Moscow conflict

    Ukrainian officials rejected the proposal, stating that they would not renounce Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.

    Ukraine, arguing sovereignty and territorial integrity has rejected a peace plan proposed by former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, stating that they will not renounce Crimea. Lula's proposal involved the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and the establishment of an autonomous region in the Donbass region.