India is ready to play an active role in any attempts to move towards peace, the Prime Minister said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv that he was personally ready to contribute to peace between Kyiv and Moscow as a ‘friend of Ukraine’.
‘I want to assure you that India is ready to play an active role in any attempt to move towards peace. And if I personally can play a role, I will do so, I assure you as a friend,’ Modi said.
The Indian prime minister insists that it is ‘time for Ukraine and Russia to start peace talks’, as ‘the only way to resolve the conflict is through dialogue and diplomacy’.
‘And we need to move in this direction without wasting time. Both sides must sit down at the negotiating table and find a way out of this crisis,’ the politician concluded.
On the morning of 23 August, Modi arrived in Kyiv. This is the first visit to Ukraine by an Indian prime minister in the history of bilateral relations.