Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he is ready to mediate talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelenskyy if necessary.
"If I can help, I will help. But if the need arises to hold talks with Putin and Zelensky, I will be ready to discuss peace settlement efforts, no problem. What we really need is to bring together a group of people powerful enough to be respected at the negotiating table. And we should engage with both of them," da Silva said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday.
The politician also suggested creating a broad international format for talks that could be similar to the G20 to discuss peace in Ukraine.
The Brazilian president said he had already discussed this with Schulz and French President Emmanuel Macron and that he intended to raise the issue in negotiations with US President Joe Biden in February and with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in March.
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