Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva phoned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and urged him to attend peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey, the presidency in Brasilia said.
Lula, who was on an official visit to Moscow last week, “urged the Russian president to attend the negotiations” on ending the Ukraine war scheduled for Thursday, a statement said.
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Putin himself had proposed direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv at the weekend, a counteroffer after Ukraine and Europe called for a 30-day full and unconditional ceasefire.
European and other leaders have also been ramping up pressure on Putin to come to the negotiating table personally.
US President Donald Trump offered Wednesday to head to Turkey for the talks, as long as Putin also showed up.
But Putin was not on a list of negotiators the Kremlin published Wednesday.
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