Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has stated that UN Secretary-General António Guterres's participation in the BRICS summit in Kazan and his refusal to attend the peace summit on Ukraine is a "mistake".

Ukraine clapped back at the meeting between U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Putin on the sidelines of the BRICS summit despite Putin's ICC arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin closed a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, praising its role as a counterbalance to what he called the West's “perverse methods."

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, held a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan. The discussion addressed the issue of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin stated at the BRICS summit that the Turkish representative at the September session of the UN General Assembly in New York received an offer from Ukraine for Russia. This information was relayed to the Kremlin.