Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao said that "there must be a use of force against the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and support for Ukraine," otherwise Russia may advance as Germany did in the 1930s.
"There must be a real use of force to support Ukraine," Mourao said, because "if the Western countries let Ukraine fall, then it will be Bulgaria, then the Baltic states and so on, as Germany did," Argentine newspaper Infobai said.
Mourao, an army reserve general who has been estranged away from President Jair Bolsonaro for several months, explained that this was just his "opinion" and that he was not speaking on behalf of the government, which has so far ruled in the dispute only through a memo from Brazil's State Department.
The government of Brazil, the country with a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, has expressed its "grave concern" about the Russian attack on Ukraine and called for an "immediate suspension of hostilities".
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