Ukrainian president says Brasília-Beijing initiative shows “lack of respect” toward Kyiv’s position.

Ukrainian president says Brasília-Beijing initiative shows “lack of respect” toward Kyiv’s position.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Brazil of being pro-Russia in the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and lambasted a joint peace proposal drawn up by Brasília and Beijing.

“The Chinese-Brazilian proposal is also destructive, it’s just a political statement,” Zelenskyy said during an interview with Brazilian news site Metrópoles on Wednesday evening.

Brazil and China signed a joint statement in May calling for peace talks involving both Russia and Ukraine. However, according to the Ukrainian president, the two countries consulted Moscow but not Kyiv.

“We are not stupid,” Zelenskyy said during the interview. “How can you offer ‘here is our initiative’ without asking anything from us?” He added, “This is a lack of respect toward Ukraine.”

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    707·
    15 days ago

    Well… yeah. Brazil’s the B in BRICS and Russia’s the R, so Brazil is officially pro-Russia.

    And by the bye - China’s the C.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      245·
      15 days ago

      Lula doesn’t seem quite as straightforwardly pro-Russia as Bolsanaro was, but its very clear their economic association with Russia makes them unable to truly be neutral arbiters of the situation, no matter how much Lula wants to present Brazil as attempting to be neutral.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          31·
          15 days ago

          BRICS is more about resisting european hegemony to establish a new hegemony than anything. As a unit, sometimes they’ll say something real as hell, but generally speaking 90% of what they do is the same evil backstabbing shit we always talk about the US doing to influence global economics and sustain power. When BRICS is taken into consideration with the G-7 what we actually see is a two party system of global torture that more than anything wants to maintain the basic status quo, they just want to shift slightly who’s on top

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      Just because I found it’s interesting and tangentialy related, here’s a bunch of statistics on the BRICS States by the German federal office of statistics.

      https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Thema/allgemeines-regionales/BRICS/_inhalt.html

      Auto-translate should work. The statistic on CO₂ Emissions might be slightly unfair, as I assume a lot of that is directly, or indirectly related to production for G7 countries.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      15 days ago

      Came to say this. Brazil is going to align themselves politically with these countries in the coming years.

  • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
    241·
    15 days ago

    As a Brazilian, I’d rather have Ukraine than Russia in BRICS. Of course EU is certainly more attractive.

      • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
        71·
        15 days ago

        For sure! Until recently I didn’t even know it has become some sort of official thing, I always thought that it was just an observation by economists that these 5 countries in particular were “ahead” of the other “developing” countries.

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    141·
    15 days ago

    Ukraine needs to be allowed to go weapons free in Russia proper, destroy their air defenses, then start hitting refineries and other high value targets throughout Russia and especially near Moscow. Then, peace talks can be productive.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    15 days ago

    The disrespect from Russia and China aside, I am.optimistic that attempts at peace talks are coming in.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      191·
      15 days ago

      The peace talks are DOA for the reasons stated quite clearly in the article. And frankly, this should surprise absolutely nobody. The proposals were demonstrably not serious, nor made in good faith - again, for reasons stated quite clearly in the article.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        15 days ago

        Yes, that would be the “Disrepect from Russia and China” I acknowledged which comprises one third of my entire comment.

        Still a step up from the situation months ago where neither side wanted any sort of resolution other than taking everything in reach. (Namely the aggressor Russia, now begging for resolution).