Curated By: Rohit
Last Updated: July 27, 2024
Modi is set to visit Ukraine on August 23 for his first visit since the conflict began, following recent meetings with Russia’s Putin.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during the G7 leaders’ summit in Hiroshima, Japan May 20, 2023. (Reuters)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Kyiv in August, marking his first trip to Ukraine since Russia’s all-out war began in February 2022. The visit, anticipated to occur next month around Ukraine’s Independence Day, is still being finalised, news agency PTI reported, citing diplomatic sources.
Modi’s trip, which is yet to be confirmed by the Ministry of External Affairs, follows an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, extended earlier this year during a phone call. If Modi travels to Poland, it would be the first by an Indian PM minister to that country in more than four decades.
India and Ukraine are looking at Modi’s visit to Kyiv in the later half of August, the sources said, adding that there is no finality on the trip yet as massive preparations would be required in terms of logistics and related issues. The prime minister’s two-nation visit might begin around August 23-24, the sources said.
The reports of Modi’s visit come amid a series of high-level exchanges between India and Ukraine. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, along with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Yermak, recently held telephone discussions.
Jaishankar reported that the talks aimed at “further developing our bilateral relationship.” In June, Modi met with Zelenskyy at the G7 summit in Italy, where they discussed the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Prime Minister reiterated India’s commitment to supporting a peaceful resolution and stressed the importance of “dialogue and diplomacy.” This meeting marked their second in-person encounter since the war began, the first being at last year’s G7 summit in Japan.
Earlier this month, Modi held talks with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow during a significant visit that reaffirmed India-Russia strategic ties. During Modi’s visit to Russia, which coincided with a missile strike on a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital that killed dozens, Modi told Putin that the death of innocent children was painful and terrifying.
Modi is a war profiteer who embraced putler the child murderer just at the same time as orc missiles were hitting a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
His visit to Kyiv won’t change his putinist worldview and Ukraine will not get any help.
But I’d love to be proved wrong.
A glance at top English language news sites in his homeland, eg TOI and HT, confirms the grotesque bias of both editorial staff and reader/commenters.
The above site that reports this story is itself a Modi regime mouthpiece.
I appreciate that Zel must host this guy in the 1% chance of something positive coming out of it.
Kuleba went to China on the same basis and came away with a promise from them not to supply russia with war fighting materiel.
Whether this can be trusted and verified is yet to be seen.
“During Modi’s visit to Russia, which coincided with a missile strike on a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital that killed dozens, Modi told Putin that the death of innocent children was painful and terrifying.”
But he failed to name putlerstan as the culprit; instead referring to this dreadful atrocity as some sort of abstract event.
Modi sucks.