its president Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva suggested yesterday thursday Ukraine cede your peninsula Crimea V Russia in order to stop war which has been raging since February 2022, even noting that its Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky “He can’t want everything.”

President of Russia Vladimir Putin “He cannot occupy the territory of Ukraine. About Crimea, maybe we could discuss. But as for other territories that he invaded, he will have to think again,” Lula told reporters in Brasilia.

“Zelensky cannot want everything,” the Brazilian president continued. “The world needs peace (…) We must find a solution,” he added.

Kyiv refuses to negotiate with Moscow unless Russian troops are withdrawn from all over Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.

Lula’s proposal and meeting with Xi Jinping

In late February, Lula made a proposal, still unclear, for a group of countries to mediate an end to the war in Ukraine. He will lay out his plan when he meets with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing next Thursday, April 13.

The Brazilian president says he is “confident” that the plan has a chance of success and hopes that a group of countries to mediate “will be established” upon his return from China.

Lula’s chief adviser on international affairs, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, met in Moscow at the end of March with Vladimir Putin and his government’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is also expected in Brazil on Monday, April 17.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}

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