Ukraine has announced its rejection of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s proposal to cede Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, in return for ending the war with Russia.
Oleh Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said in statements today, "There is no legal, political or moral reason for Ukraine to give up an inch of its territory"expressing his appreciation for the efforts of the Brazilian president to find a way to stop the Russian aggression.
confirmed that "Every mediation aimed at restoring peace in Ukraine must be based on respect for sovereignty and its full territorial integrity, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter.". Yesterday, Thursday, the Brazilian President proposed that Ukraine cede Crimea to Russia with the aim of ending the war, considering that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could not "gets it all". At the end of last January, the Brazilian president put forward a proposal that is still vague about the mediation of several countries in the conflict in Ukraine, and Lula is scheduled to present the proposal to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing next week.
