Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ended his five-day trip in Latin America during which he visited Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to seek deeper political and economic ties and common grounds on the Ukraine crisis.

The five countries voiced opposition to hegemony, foreign interference in internal national affairs and unilateral sanctions, and called for a peaceful political settlement to the Ukraine crisis.

Lavrov said that Russia is willing to work with other countries to build a more democratic and just multipolar world order based on sovereign equality, adding that his country hopes to carry out constructive cooperation with countries that are not subject to any "external domination."

In Brazil, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the U.S. and European allies should stop supplying arms to Ukraine, arguing that they were prolonging the war. "If you are not making peace, you are contributing to war," Lula said. He also suggested a third alternative to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table, which he believes is helpful to the construction of peace.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira criticized the unilateral sanctions against Russia, saying such moves didn't get the approval of the UN Security Council and harmed the global economy, especially in developing countries.

Venezuela also criticized the U.S and European countries' systematic sanctions against Russia and Venezuela, with its Vice President Delcy Rodríguez saying the Venezuelan government's financial losses have reached $232 billion since the U.S. imposed additional sanctions on Venezuela in 2015.

She added that since 2015, Western countries have imposed 929 unilateral sanctions on Venezuela, 60 percent of which were imposed by the U.S.

She remarked that the U.S. is waging an "economic war" against Venezuela and carrying out "systematic human rights persecution" against Venezuelan people as these sanctions have left many Venezuelans without basic life supplies.

Nicaragua and Cuba also voiced opposition against the U.S. and NATO, criticizing the U.S.-led military organization's continued expansion into Russian borders, which they believed triggered the current Ukraine crisis.

"I believe Lavrov's visit will further deepen the cooperation between Russia and Latin American countries, and will contribute to the development of a multipolar world, a world free from hegemony and sanctions," Eduardo Regalado, senior researcher at the International Policy Research Center of Cuba, told China Media Group in a recent interview.