DOMINANT ANGLE
Lima sees the invitation to Vladimir Putin for the G20 in Miami as the diplomatic extension of the same UN week, where Marco Rubio is pushing for an energy truce while Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Moscow of recruiting fighters in 47 countries.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
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Zelensky stated before the UN Security Council: "We know that Russia is using citizens of 47 countries in its war," citing two North Korean soldiers captured and handed over to South Korea.
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Marco Rubio revealed on Wednesday that Washington was pushing for Russia and Ukraine to stop their attacks on energy infrastructure.
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Zelensky warned that Ukrainian forces would target Russian heating and energy facilities this winter in response to Russian strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
ANALYSIS
Lima, Thursday, September 24, 2026. In the Peruvian press, the invitation issued by Washington to Vladimir Putin for the G20 summit in Miami, in December, is still only being reported indirectly, through other announcements made the same week by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Andina and Gestión report that Rubio revealed on Wednesday that Washington "was pressing for Russia and Ukraine to cease attacks on energy infrastructure": a pressure for a partial pause that, according to the diplomatic context of the week, could cover grain deliveries and energy facilities of the two countries.
This announcement is being compared, in the same columns, to the speech given by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the UN Security Council. Zelensky accused Russia of having recruited fighters from 47 nationalities: "We know that Russia is using citizens of 47 countries in its war," he said, citing the capture of two North Korean soldiers who have since been returned to South Korea. The Ukrainian president also warned that his forces would target Russian heating and energy facilities this winter, in response to the strikes that Moscow has been directing against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure since the start of the conflict.
For the Lima press, these two threads - American pressure for a pause in energy strikes, and the Ukrainian warning for winter - set the real backdrop against which the G20 invitation is being made: a summit diplomacy that is advancing in parallel with a war where civilian infrastructure remains a claimed target. Rubio justified the American line with the financial argument: "when someone provides more money to Russia through trade, they give it more time for this war," he said, adding that Washington intended to "limit trade with the aggressor".
None of the Peruvian media outlets consulted have detailed the Kremlin's reaction to the Miami invitation or the list of leaders expected to attend the summit. Local coverage is still focused on the UN sequence of Wednesday - Zelensky's accusation, Rubio's pressure - rather than the December summit itself.
