Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to go to Ukraine someday in August, media retailers in New Delhi have reported citing diplomatic sources.
Although he has met with Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of G7 conferences in Italy and Japan, Modi has not visited Kiev since hostilities between Ukraine and Russia started in February 2022.
In response to Indian media, the go to is anticipated round August 23. Overseas Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and nationwide safety advisor Ajit Doval have held phone talks with their Ukrainian counterparts, Dmitry Kuleba and Andrey Yermak, earlier this month.
Throughout his assembly with Zelensky in Italy final month, Modi repeated that “India would proceed to do the whole lot inside its means to assist a peaceable answer,” in accordance with a authorities readout.
Earlier this month, Modi was in Moscow, assembly with President Vladimir Putin. The Indian prime minister later stated that “very attention-grabbing concepts” and “utterly new views” emerged from their talks and that talking with the Russian president gave him hope.
“It’s a enormous disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the chief of the world’s largest democracy hug the world’s most bloody felony in Moscow,” Zelensky posted on social media concerning the Modi-Putin assembly.
India responded by summoning the Ukrainian ambassador in New Delhi to the Overseas Ministry for an evidence.
The US was reportedly additionally “annoyed” by the “horrible” optics of Modi’s Moscow go to, which undermined the American efforts to current Russia as remoted on the world stage.
India has had a long-standing relationship with Russia, most notably within the discipline of protection cooperation. Final yr, the quantity of commerce between the 2 nations surged to $65 billion, largely because of India’s elevated purchases of Russian oil and coal. It’s anticipated to succeed in $100 billion by 2030.
New Delhi can be one of many founding members of BRICS. Modi is anticipated to journey to Russia once more in October, to attend the group’s summit in Kazan.
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