KYIV: India’s Narendra Modi urged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday (Aug 23) to sit down down for talks with Russia to finish the conflict in Ukraine and provided to behave as a good friend to assist carry peace as the 2 leaders met in wartime Kyiv.
The primary go to by an Indian prime minister in fashionable Ukrainian historical past comes at a risky juncture within the conflict launched by Russia in February 2022, with Moscow making sluggish positive aspects in jap Ukraine as Kyiv presses a cross-border incursion.
Modi, whose visit to Moscow final month was criticised by Kyiv, stated he had come to Ukraine with a message of peace and referred to as for dialogue between Russia and Ukraine on the earliest alternative.
“The street to decision can solely be discovered by dialogue and diplomacy. And we must always transfer in that path with out losing any time. Each side ought to sit collectively to discover a method out of this disaster,” Modi stated.
“I need to guarantee you that India is able to play an lively function in any efforts in direction of peace. If I can play any function on this personally, I’ll do this I need to guarantee you as a good friend,” he stated.
The remarks have been made throughout joint statements, through which each leaders hailed the go to as “historic”.
