Lula Plans to Meet With Putin at BRICS Summit in October
- Latin American leader will take part in the BRICS summit
- Brazil’s president met with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov in Brasilia
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in October when the two leaders attend the BRICS summit slated to be held in Russia, Brazil’s government said in statement Thursday night.
It will be the first meeting of the bloc in which Putin will participate since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022. The Russian president didn’t travel to the group’s summit last year in South Africa given the risk of being arrested by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.