Kyiv, 23 August 2024 (TDI): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday discussed prospects for ending the war in Ukraine with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In a statement before the visit, Modi said that India supported diplomacy and dialogue.
The visit is the first by an Indian Prime Minister to Ukraine since the nations established diplomatic ties in 1992.
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the meeting was “very open, very detailed,” and “very constructive.”
In preparation for another potential peace summit on the war this year, Ukraine President Zelenskyy has tried to strengthen ties with countries in the Global South.
India is a close economic partner of Russia and Narendra Modi visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in July.
Zelenskyy called Narendra Modi’s embrace of Putin “a devastating blow to peace efforts.
In the latest development in Russia-Ukraine war, Russian forces mounted 53 attacks on the Pokrovsk front in Donetsk oblast on Thursday as Moscow pressed to take the town, which Kyiv’s forces described as the main focus of the invaders’ efforts in the country.
Elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian positions near the settlement of Niu-York.
Moscow earlier said it had captured the settlement. Russia’s military also claimed it had seized the village of Mezhove, between already held Pokrovsk and Avdiivka .
