Brazilian President Lula da Silva refuses to visit Putin

He wrote about this on Twitter.

"Just spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I thanked him for the invitation to attend the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg and said that I cannot go to Russia now, but reaffirmed the readiness of Brazil, as well as India, Indonesia and China, to communicate with both sides of the conflict to achieve peace," Lula da Silva said.

As a reminder, on 16 April, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of "not taking steps towards reconciliation" and said that it was necessary to create an analogue of the G20 to end the war in Ukraine.

The Brazilian leader also stressed that the US should stop "encouraging war" in Ukraine and "start talking about peace".

• On 16 April, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of "not taking steps towards reconciliation" and said that it was necessary to create an analogue of the G20 to end the war in Ukraine.

• The Brazilian leader also stressed that the US should stop "encouraging war" in Ukraine and "start talking about peace".

• On 22 April, Lula da Silva, in response to an invitation to visit Ukraine, promised to send his special assistant to Kyiv.

• On 22 May, Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had not attended the scheduled meeting during the Group of Seven summit in Japan.

• The Office of the President of Ukraine explained that the meeting did not take place due to "scheduling conflicts".