Russian president seeks to rally leaders meeting in South Africa to Moscow’s side by blaming west
Vladimir Putin has defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and sought to rally leaders of theto the leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa, Putin repeated his earlier unfounded claims that the west was responsible for the war in Ukraine.
“Our actions in Ukraine are dictated by only one thing – to end the war that was unleashed by the west and its satellites against the people who live in the Donbas,” Putin said, referring to the eastern part of Ukraine where“I want to note that it was the desire to maintain their hegemony in the world, the desire of some countries to maintain this hegemony that led to the severe crisis inPutin was the only leader of the five-nation Brics summit not to attend in person and spoke instead by video...
The Brics countries represent about 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP, but the group is considering expansion. Leaders from more than 40 countries, largely from Africa and elsewhere in the global south, flew in for the three-day summit in Johannesburg alongside Brazil’sAccording to the South African organisers, many of those countries have expressed interest in joining – though there had been divisions among the Brics leaders over how many and how quickly.
“We have agreed on the matter of expansion,” he told Ubuntu Radio, a station run by South Africa’s foreign ministry. “We have a document that we’ve adopted which sets out guidelines and principles, processes for considering countries that wish to become members of
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