Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make official visits to Poland and Ukraine.
The politician will arrive in Warsaw on August 21, and in Kyiv on August 23, on the eve of Independence Day.
The Economic Times reports this.
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Modi's visit to Ukraine — what is known
This will be the first visit of the head of the Indian government to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.
Since 2022, Modi has repeatedly met with Zelensky at international venues, each time emphasizing the need for “dialogue and diplomacy” for a peaceful settlement.
And this time he will arrive in Kyiv “with a message of dialogue and diplomacy against the backdrop of the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict”, as reported by the Western press.
Modi met with Putin — Zelensky's reaction
It is known that India did not directly condemn the Russian Federation for the full-scale introduction of troops into Ukraine, and in July of this year, Modi was in Moscow, where he hugged dictator Vladimir Putin.
— I thank President Putin for receiving me at Novo-Ogaryovo (Putin's residence — Ed.). I look forward to tomorrow's talks, which will undoubtedly contribute to strengthening the friendship between India and Russia, — Modi described his meeting with the dictator with undisguised delight.
The Indian politician's visit to Russia coincided with the Russian attack on the Kyiv clinic Okhmatdet, where seriously ill children from all over Ukraine were being treated.
President Volodymyr Zelensky then expressed his disappointment with the position of the prime minister from New Delhi.
— It is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world's greatest democracy embrace the bloodiest criminal in Moscow on a day like this, — the head of state wrote in his H.
