Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said "those who want to talk to us now could have done so before the war started."

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has dismissed a Chinese-Brazilian peace initiative for the war in Ukraine as "destructive", and complained that Kyiv had not been involved in the process. China and Brazil called in May for an international peace conference recognised by both Russia and Ukraine,

I had a good conversation with President Lula, and I felt that he understood me. I was grateful for the meeting and was very open, absolutely open,” the Ukrainian president said. He explained that he hoped to see in Lula’s actions “an understanding of what is happening,

A six-point peace plan jointly proposed by China and Brazil sparked a furious outburst from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week, who described it as "destructive." China and Brazil first put forward the plan in May,