Sérgio Moro: If we had been left with only that episode, it would already have been embarrassing enough, but in its wake we had the BRICS meeting here in Rio de Janeiro, depleted.
Sérgio Moro: Vladimir Putin did not come. Okay, he has an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court and it would not, in fact, be prudent for him to attend, but the President of China did not come either, nor did other important leaders.
And from that BRICS meeting I did not see any concrete resolution toward a greater rapprochement among those countries; what we saw, moreover, in the statements made at the end of that BRICS meeting was a complete inversion of values, embodied in the point where the BRICS condemned an attack carried out by Ukraine on Russian territory, on civilian infrastructure, in which there were said to have been some civilian victims.
Sérgio Moro: We are all against the war, and if that attack did, in fact, have that result, it deserves to be condemned, but the hypocrisy of that statement—and Senator Damares was with me there, in Kiev, to see the suffering of the Ukrainian people—the hypocrisy of that condemnation of Ukraine’s attack is highlighted by the complete omission of the context, a context in which Ukraine is the victim of an invasion by Russia; Russia is the aggressor country.
Sérgio Moro: And worse than that, every day we hear reports of attacks carried out by Russia with drones and missiles against civilian targets in Ukraine, resulting in civilian deaths.