KYIV: India’s Narendra Modi urged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday (Aug 23) to take a seat down for talks with Russia to finish the struggle in Ukraine and supplied to behave as a pal to assist convey 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 struggle launched by Russia in February 2022, with Moscow making sluggish features in japanese Ukraine as Kyiv presses a cross-border incursion.
Modi, whose go to to Moscow final month was criticised by Kyiv, mentioned he had come to Ukraine with a message of peace and known as for dialogue between Russia and Ukraine on the earliest alternative.
“The street to decision can solely be discovered via 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 means out of this disaster,” Modi mentioned.
“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 pal,” he mentioned.
The remarks had been made throughout joint statements, by which each leaders hailed the go to as “historic”.
