Putin also congratulated him on his victory in the recent presidential election.
Brazil’s president-elect Luis Inacio Lula da Silva revealed today that he had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin for “strengthening the ties” of the two countries.
Putin also congratulated him on his victory in the recent presidential election.
“I spoke today with Russian President Vladimir Putin who congratulated me on my election victory, wished me a good term and the strengthening of ties between our two countriesLula, who will assume his duties on January 1, said in a post on Twitter.
“Brazil is back, talking to everyone and committed to a world without hunger, in peace“, he added, while Putin has been waging war in Ukraine since February, as a result of which Russia has been isolated from a large part of the international community.
Russia and Brazil are partners in BRICS, the group of countries that also includes China, India and South Africa.
The Kremlin, in its own statement, said the two leaders expressed optimism that “their strategic partnership (…) will be successfully developed also within the framework of BRICS».
In April, Lula provoked strong reactions when he stated, in an interview with the American magazine Time, that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is “equally responsible” with Putin about the war in his country.
“I see the Ukrainian president getting a standing ovation in all Parliaments (of the world). But this guy is just as responsible as Putin. A war never has only one culprit“, he had stated at the time.
The far-right, outgoing president of Brazil Zaich Bolsonarodefeated by Lula in the second round of presidential elections on October 30, had declared the country’s “neutrality” in the Ukraine war.
Bolsonaro had met Putin in Moscow on February 15, days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to ensure that Brazil would continue to be supplied with Russian fertiliser.
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