Ukraine war hangs over BRICS summit

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Xi, Modi and Putin discuss Ukraine war amid BRICS expansion talks

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira pose during a photo ceremony before a plenary session of the BRICS 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia.

Photo ceremony before a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

BRICS leaders called for a Gaza ceasefire and made positive noises about a non-Western payment system but mentioned Ukraine just once in their final communique. The document ranged from geopolitics and narcotics to AI.

The war in Ukraine, however, still hangs over the Kazan summit. India's Narendra Modi told Vladimir Putin in public that he wanted peace in Ukraine, while China's Xi Jinping discussed the conflict behind closed doors.

BRICS - an idea thought up inside Goldman Sachs two decades ago to describe the growing economic clout of other major emerging markets - is now a group that accounts for 45% of the world's population and 35% of the global economy.

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