Putin will be invited to G20, but will have to face ICC warrant – Brazilian President

Putin will be invited to the G20 summit in Brazil / Collage 24 Channel

On Monday, December 4, Brazilian President Lula da Silva made another statement. He noted that Vladimir Putin will be invited to the G20 summit.

It is scheduled for 2024, and will be held in Brazil. At the same time, Lula da Silva emphasized, the Russian President will decide for himself whether to go or not to go.

Putin must be prepared for the consequences

Putin will be invited. Whether he goes or not, he has a process, he must deal with the consequences (ICC warrants – Channel 24). I can’t say that this is a court decision, and the president of the republic does not judge court decisions; he fulfills them or does not fulfill them. So, Putin is invited to Brazil. If he comes, he knows what will happen,” Silvo added.

The President added that Brazil had signed the Rome Statute. Consequently, she will be responsible if Vladimir Putin arrives in the country for the G20 summit. It is noteworthy that back in September, Lula da Silva assured that Putin would not be arrested. But after a few months he changed his mind.

Let us recall that on March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. He is accused of forcibly deporting Ukrainian children. Note that because of this order, the Russian President did not go to the BRICS meeting in South Africa in August.

Meanwhile, TIME continues to flounder. It told who made it to the finals of the “Person of the Year” rating. And among the finalists is Vladimir Putin.

Why Putin can become “Person of the Year”

The publication began with the fact that since 1999, Vladimir Putin has held power in Russia in his own hands. Either he is the president, then he is the prime minister, then he is the president again. We will add that in 2024 he will fight for election to the next term.

The journalists added that Putin has been waging a full-scale invasion for the second year. But that's not the reason. Maximum attention was paid to the fact that the Russian President allegedly “faced a short-term threat to his power” in 2023. And that this happened after the so-called uprising of the Wagner PMC.

TIME writes that after this, Putin’s influence only increased. That a group of Wagner mercenaries retreated after an alleged agreement concluded between Yevgeny Prigozhin and Alexander Lukashenko.

The praise for Putin is not over. They say that in 2007 he was “Person of the Year”. He has also been featured in the TIME100 several times, most notably in 2022, when he made a full-scale invasion.