Brazil is under pressure from the United States to impose sanctions on Moscow, according to Alexei Lapetsky, the Russian ambassador to Brazil.
“No doubt. We can obviously see that “In answer to a query about whether the West was exerting pressure on Brazil, Labetsky remarked.
The head of Russia’s diplomatic mission in Brazil noted that the West, particularly the US, is trying to persuade Brazilians that sanctions against Russia are justified, adding in this context: “So far they have not produced any effect.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that Brazil would not vote in favour of a UN resolution denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin or proposing sanctions, even though he claimed last July that sanctions imposed by the West against Russia had failed. This was after the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s advisor Celso Amorim said in early August that if he were to run for president again, da Silva would not support sanctions against Russia. Amorim is a former foreign and defence minister of Brazil.
After the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the West had escalated the pressure of sanctions on Russia, but this matter primarily turned into problems for the United States and Europe, which led to a sharp rise in the prices of electricity, fuel and food.
In this context, President Vladimir Putin noted that the policy of containing and weakening Moscow is a long-term strategy for the West, and that the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. .
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