Ukraine’s acting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a tirade Sept. 11, when asked by a reporter for Brazil’s Metropoles news site about the six-point China-Brazil peace initiative which a growing number of other nations are endorsing as a viable pathway out of a Ukraine-Russia conflict which is driving the world towards global catastrophe. Scarcely able to control his rage, Zelenskyy denounced the initiative as “destructive,” but focused his fire on Brazil. He accused President Lula da Silva of engaging in “political pacification.… You either support the war, or you don’t support the war. If you don’t support it, then help us stop Russia,” Zelenskyy said. “Unfortunately, I believe that they (the Brazilian government) support Russia…. Why did you suddenly decide that you should take Russia’s side or be somewhere in the middle? In the middle of what?” Zelenskyy said. Neutrality is not allowed.
The same day, Zelenskyy also threatened that Brazil must face reprisals if Russian President Vladimir Putin is invited to the G20 summit which Brazil will host this November. The Zelenskyy regime is still stinging over the royal welcome Mongolia (like Brazil a signatory to the Rome Convention establishing the International Criminal Court)—gave Putin on his Sept. 3 official visit, refusing to arrest him for the ICC. Zelenskyy warned the United for Justice conference that the G20 summit “is a very serious event. We have heard signals from the Brazilian authorities that they planned to invite Putin, but for this to happen, they will have to circumvent the law.… Shouldn’t they be held accountable for this?”
Today, Ukrinform News Agency asked China’s Foreign Ministry Press spokeswoman Mao Ning to comment on Zelenskyy’s charge that “it is unacceptable to call for a compromise with the enemy who occupied Ukraine’s sovereign territory.” The spokeswoman calmly reminded the Ukrainian reporter that no such call is included in the China-Brazil initiative. Rather, the “six “common understandings” which the two nations put forward are addressed to the most urgent priority: “to deescalate the situation.”
