Ukraine criticises Brazil’s peace efforts and invites Lula to see invasion’s effects

Kyiv accuses Brazilian president’s initiative for giving equal weight to ‘the victim and the aggressor’

Ukraine’s government has criticised Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for his efforts to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow, and invited the Brazilian leader to visit the war-torn country and see for himself the consequences of the Russian invasion.

The comments came a day after Russia’s minister of foreign affairs, Sergei Lavrov, visited Brasília, and praised Lula’s calls for a negotiated settlement.