India ready to play active role to end war: PM Modi tells Ukrainian president
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the conflict will end if Delhi changed its ‘attitude’ towards Moscow.
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India is ready to play an “active role” in efforts to secure peace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday amid Russia’s war on the eastern European country.
“If I can play any role in this personally, I will do that,” Modi said during his seven-hour visit to Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Modi also urged Zelenskyy to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to find a solution to the crisis, adding that “the road to resolution can only be found through dialogue and diplomacy”.
Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.
On Friday, Modi said that although India stayed away from Russia’s war on Ukraine, Delhi was not neutral and was in favour of peace. “We come from the land of Buddha and [Mahatma] Gandhi with a message of peace,” he added.
Referring to his two-day visit to Moscow in July, Modi said that he had told Putin that this was not the era of war. “I told him [Putin] last month that solutions cannot be found on the battlefield,” Modi said.
During the meeting between Modi and Putin, Zelenskyy had said last month that was a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world’s largest democracy hug...
