Reuters reported EU leaders' dissatisfaction with the Brazilian president's decision at the G20

European Union leaders were dissatisfied with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's decision to end the talks at the G20 summit early, thus reducing the discussion on Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters on November 19.

"The communiqué is usually published at the end of the summit, but Lula decided to approve the text during the end of the plenary session on Monday - at that moment the leaders of France, Germany and the United States were not in the room," the publication said.

The agency noted that French leader Emmanuel Macron was unhappy with such a decision by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He said that "the text would have won if he had been more frank" about the Ukrainian conflict.

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Earlier in the day, the FT saw a drop in support for Kiev at the G20 amid calls for talks with Russian Federation. According to the newspaper, some European delegations wanted to include a paragraph condemning Russia in the text, but refused to do so for fear of disrupting the adoption of the document. The journalists also pointed out that talks on Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East were postponed until the last days before the summit.

The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro was held from November 18 to 19, Russia was represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In the already adopted final declaration, the participants of the meeting welcomed all constructive initiatives to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Kiev amid Russia's special operation to protect Donbas, which was announced on February 24, 2022, after the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.