Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on Friday to strengthen his country's "strategic partnership" with Russia in a meeting with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
Lula also slammed Donald Trump's tariffs during his trip to Moscow, where he was marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany alongside some two dozen other world leaders.
"My visit here is to strengthen and rebuild our strategic partnership," he told Putin.
Russia is deepening ties outside the West amid its offensive on Ukraine and sees its alliances with the likes of Brazil, China and India as a bulwark against the United States and NATO.
"We are interested in discussing the defence area, the space area, the scientific and technological area, the education area, and especially, the energy issue area," Lula said.
Putin said Moscow and Brasilia had "managed to do a lot of work to strengthen relations between our countries in recent years."
The Brazilian leader also repeated his criticism of Trump's economic policies, telling Putin that US tariffs "unilaterally undermine the great idea of free trade, undermine the great idea of strengthening multilateralism, and often undermine the respect for the sovereignty of countries."