Zelensky Contributed to the Ukraine War

SAO PAULO – Brazil’s leading presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin bear equal responsibility for the war in Ukraine.

This attitude puts the leftist figure at odds with Western powers.

“I saw the president of Ukraine, speaking on television, getting a standing ovation from all the (European) parliamentarians,” said Lula, president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.

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He told Time magazine, which published a story Wednesday about his bid to run again as a presidential candidate in the election against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

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“This man (Zelensky) is as responsible as Putin for war,” he said.

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The statement is likely to spark attention in the United States and Europe, which supplies military support to Ukraine and has hit Russia with punitive sanctions over an invasion widely seen in the West as an act of unwarranted Russian aggression.

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