Some of the papers have already been confirmed by US intelligence to be true. The documents signaled US fears that Vladimir Putin would use Lula’s plan to end the war in Ukraine to its advantage.
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Jamil Chad, on his blog
Documents supposedly from the Pentagon, leaked in recent days on social networks, signaled that the government of Russian Vladimir Putin considered the Brazilian proposal to create a negotiating group for the war in Ukraine as a way to reduce pressure from the West against the Kremlin.
The documents were disseminated on social networks, without the person responsible for exposing the texts being identified. In the US government, the leak opened a crisis and calls for investigations to be carried out. Some of the papers have been confirmed by US intelligence to be true.
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Among the different information revealed, one refers to Brazil and the proposal by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to create a kind of contact group to allow countries that are not part of the war to facilitate a dialogue and put an end to the war.
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According to US intelligence documents, Moscow would use Lula’s proposal in its favor.
According to the leak, Russian diplomats signaled that they were willing to consider Lula’s proposal. Moscow believed, according to US intelligence, that the plan “to create a club of supposedly neutral mediators to deal with the war in Ukraine would reject the West’s aggressor-victim paradigm”. The information was first revealed by the Miami Herald on Tuesday.
Moscow is experiencing a diplomatic, economic, financial and even sporting siege, with embargoes and sanctions. At the UN, the West’s effort is to designate the Russians as solely responsible for the war, as the aggressor.
In the first months of his government, the Brazilian president made statements suggesting that the situation of Russia and Ukraine would be equalized, which left Western capitals in a state of alert. Although Lula has spoken by telephone with Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, some of his UN votes have also raised concerns among Western powers.
One of them occurred two weeks ago, when Brazil was one of the only countries to side with a proposal by Russia to create a UN investigation group to examine the explosions in gas pipelines in the North Sea. Next to Brazil were only China and Russia itself.
In March, when Lula was in Washington, Joe Biden’s government coldly received the Brazilian’s proposal to create a group of negotiators. At that moment, the White House made it clear that any initiative could only count on countries that declared that Russia had been the only aggressor and that the Charter of the United Nations had been violated by Moscow.
Lula, however, left Washington having signed a joint document in which he condemned Russian aggression. For experienced Brazilian ambassadors, this was Biden’s objective with Lula’s visit. “The Americans got what they wanted,” said one.
The leaked documents also indicated that, according to the Americans, the Brazilian government planned to send a high-ranking delegation to Moscow in the first half of April. In fact, in early April, Lula’s special advisor for International Affairs, Celso Amorim, traveled to Moscow and held a meeting with Putin. On the 17th, it will be the turn of Sergei Lavrov, Russian chancellor, to visit Brazil. A meeting with President Lula is being planned.
This week, Lula is still going to negotiate with the president of China, Xi Jinping, a joint declaration in which the two leaders must ask that diplomatic paths be established to end the war.
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