(EP/EFE).-Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski, has assured that he does not understand the position of his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and has reproached him for not bringing peace with his latest statements, after last week last time he stated that Moscow and Kiev have no interest in sitting down to negotiate.
“President Lula has experience, but I don’t understand him very well (…) Lula’s statements do not bring any peace,” Zelenski said from kyiv during a collective interview with several Latin American media.
In this sense, he has exposed that although he believes that Lula “has his own opinion” about this conflict, at the same time he seems to be the only international leader who accepts the hypotheses of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Only Putin and Lula talk about Russia’s security, about the security guarantees that must be given to Russia,” said Zelenski, who wondered why Brazil, “a peaceful country”, has to agree with the narrative of the Russian president, who does not differ, he has said, from any “colonizer”.
“He lies, manipulates, constantly misinforms. He is killing our children and raping our women”
“He lies, manipulates, constantly misinforms. He is killing our children and raping our women. Honestly, if President Lula wants to tell me something, let him sit down and tell me and I think we’ll put an end to all this,” he said.
“Honestly, I thought he had a broader understanding of the world,” said Zelenski, who, on the other hand, has stated that he is confident that he will be able to bring together the largest number of Latin American nations at the next global summit in which he plans to present his peace plan.
Lula’s position during the war in Ukraine has been highly questioned by a part of the international community, which accuses the Brazilian president of equidistance and of wanting to equalize the responsibilities of both sides.
Brazil is one of the countries, along with China and a coalition of African states, that have presented a peace alternative to Kiev, all of which have been rejected on the grounds that they do not meet the conditions set for sitting down to negotiate, including the return of the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.
For its part, Russia has focused on highlighting its victories on the battlefield. The Russian Defense Ministry reported Monday that its military forces have advanced three kilometers in a sector 11 kilometers wide on the Kharkov front in eastern Ukraine in the last three days.
“In the last three days, the advance of the Russian forces was more than three kilometers deep in a sector 11 kilometers wide of this sector of the front,” Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in the daily war report. .
The military representative pointed out that “the assault detachments of the western grouping of the Russian forces improved their positions in the vicinity of the towns of Olshana and Pershitravneve in the Kupiansk sector in the Kharkiv region.”
Russian troops repelled 12 counterattacks by three Ukrainian motorized brigades in the vicinity of the towns of Sinkovka
According to Konashenkov, Russian troops repelled 12 counterattacks by three Ukrainian motorized brigades in the vicinity of the towns of Sinkovka, in Kharkiv, and Stelmakhivka, in Lugansk.
He added that Russian aviation and artillery defeated Ukrainian troops in the towns of Kupiansk, Kotliarovka and Berestove, in the Kharkov region, causing around 110 casualties.
Last Saturday Defense claimed to have taken the town of Novoselivske, in Lugansk, and improved its positions in the Kharkov region.
Kiev military spokesmen reported last week the arrival of new Russian troops on the northeastern front, but Ukrainian soldiers defending this area said they had managed to repel enemy attacks and neutralized the bulk of the enemy forces.
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