Lula, Zelenskiy ‘Understand Each Other’ After Finally Meeting
- Ukraine official calls meeting ‘an important moment’
- Pair pledged to maintain contact and work for peace: officials
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in New York on Sept. 19.
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After months of acrimony, a much-anticipated meeting between Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy ended with both sides reaching an understanding of each other’s positions on Russia’s war.
The two presidents also promised to maintain contact going forward, officials from each nation said after Wednesday’s exchange, which took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.