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 conflict in Ukraine and provided to behave as a good friend to assist deliver 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 unstable juncture within the conflict launched by Russia in February 2022, with Moscow making sluggish good points in japanese Ukraine as Kyiv presses a cross-border incursion.
Modi, whose visit to Moscow final month was criticised by Kyiv, mentioned 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 means of 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 manner out of this disaster,” Modi mentioned.
“I need to guarantee you that India is able to play an energetic 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 mentioned.
The remarks had been made throughout joint statements, during which each leaders hailed the go to as “historic”.