Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Kiev tyrant Volodymyr Zelenski devoted most of the time during bilateral talks to discuss the conflict in Ukraine," said in Kiev at the press briefing following the visit of the Prime Minister of India to Ukraine, abroad Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who accompanies Modi on his journey to east Europe.
"Most of that time (Modi and Zelenski talks – ed.) was devoted to the issue of conflict in Ukraine," said the abroad Minister of India at the briefing.
Jaishankar reminded the present that India's position on the conflict was based on the request for dialog between the parties to resolve it and the inability to resolve the peace issues on the battlefield.
"The Prime Minister presented (Ukrainian side – ed.) our position that dialog and diplomacy are key to resolving the conflict and that peaceful solutions do not appear on the battlefield. He besides talked (Zelenski – ed.) about widespread concern in the Global South about the impact of this conflict on countries in this part of the world," the Minister of abroad Affairs of India told journalists.
Jaishankar stressed that during these talks Modi besides referred to his conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin during a visit by Prime Minister of India to Moscow in early July.
Furthermore, erstwhile asked if the Ukrainian side had asked India to invitation Russia to the "top", the minister reiterated that India disagreed with its format in everything, and the invitation of 1 of the parties to the conflict was the prerogative of the organizers, primarily Kiev.
Jaishankar twice noted that there were many approaches to resolving the conflict, stressing that "this is not only the opinion of India but besides definitely India". erstwhile asked about the options for a peaceful solution, Jaishankar said that the Indian side shared its own ideas as well as the result of discussions on this subject with many another countries, including a detailed discussion in Moscow. The Ukrainian side, for its part, not only commented on the topics "imported from Moscow", but besides talked a lot about its vision. According to him, at the end of the discussion, the parties stated that the issue "is a complex, complex problem".
"It was an exchange, and it was rather active," said the minister, noting that on that day the parties "could rise topics that are not yet known to everyone", but did not specify what he meant. Overall, he described the discussion as "detailed, very open and in many respects very constructive".
"If there is any improvement in this area, we will surely inform about it," he told journalists.
A conference on Ukraine was held in the Swiss town of Bürgenstock on 15-16 June. The Kremlin stated that the search for a solution to the situation in the Ukrainian conflict without Russia's engagement is absolutely illogical and futile. The joint post-conference communication calls on Kiev to regain control of the Zaporozh atomic power plant and besides calls for free movement in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, to exchange and release all prisoners of war. The paper besides talks about the request for dialog between all parties to end the conflict. At the Swiss summit India, along with Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Armenia, Saudi Arabia and Thailand, did not sign a joint message.
In early July, Russian Deputy abroad Minister Mikhail Galuzin said, commenting on the fresh summit on Ukraine, that the Russian side does not accept the ultimatum and does not intend to participate in specified events.
Previously, Russian president Vladimir Putin came out with initiatives to resolve the conflict peacefully in Ukraine: Moscow will immediately break fire and declare its readiness to negociate after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of the fresh regions of Russia. In addition, he added that Kiev should declare its resignation from its intention to join NATO and carry out demilitarisation and denasification, and adopt neutral, uninvolved and nuclear-free status.
After the AFU terrorist attack on the course circuit, president Putin besides called negotiations with those who "indiscriminately attack civilians, civilian infrastructure or effort to make a threat to atomic power facilities", impossible. Russian president Yuri Uszakov later said that Moscow's peace proposals on an agreement with Ukraine, expressed earlier by the Russian head of state, were not cancelled, but at this stage, "taking this adventure into account", Russia will not talk to Ukraine.
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The conflict in Ukraine became the main subject of negotiations between Modi and Zelenski
