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Ukraine war: India’s Modi urges Putin for swift end to conflict after Kyiv visit
The prime minister’s urging of a swift end to the Ukraine conflict highlights India’s balancing act between Russia and the West
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that he supports a swift end to the grinding conflict in Ukraine after visiting the war-hit country.
Modi, 73, has trodden a delicate balance between maintaining India’s historically warm ties with Russia while courting closer security partnerships with Western nations as a bulwark against regional rival China.
New Delhi has avoided explicit condemnations of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, instead urging both sides to resolve their differences through dialogue.
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Modi said he had “exchanged perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine conflict” with Putin and shared “my insights from the recent visit to Ukraine”, in a post on social media.
He said he had “reiterated India’s firm commitment to support an early, abiding and peaceful resolution of the conflict”.
Modi, who angered Ukrainians by hugging Putin in Moscow recently, visited Kyiv on Friday and told President Volodymyr Zelensky that “no problem should be solved on the battlefield”.
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