Luis Arce, the President of Bolivia, which recently became a partner nation of the BRICS, told TASS upon arrival in Rio de Janeiro for the BRICS summit: “Actually, [the Ukraine conflict] is a war being waged by the failing bloc between Europe and the United States on the developing community, which includes BRICS countries. The West needed the war between Ukraine and Russia to make it clear to the entire world that they won’t allow their bloc to collapse in the face of a new association and a new economic order emerging,” he explained. He added “We believe in multipolarity that BRICS [group] is building and that we will always support.”