Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to travel Kyiv in August, which will be his first visit since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. The visit, is expected to take place in the third week of August, most likely on August 23, according to the media reports.
Earlier this year, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky held a telephone conversation with PM Modi and invited the Indian leader to visit his country. This month saw high-level exchanges between the two sides. EAM Jaishankar and Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and NSA Ajit Doval and his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Yermak held telephonic talks.
A good conversation with FM @DmytroKuleba of Ukraine this afternoon.
Spoke about further developing our bilateral relationship.
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— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) July 19, 2024
After the talks, EAM Jaishankar posted on social media that the talks were on further developing our bilateral relationship’. Notably, PM Modi met Zelensky in June in Italy on the sidelines of the G7 summit. During that meeting, both sides had discussed the ongoing situation in Ukraine, with the Indian PM emphasising dialogue and diplomacy. The PM ‘reiterated that India would continue to do everything within its means to support a peaceful solution”, according to the handout of the meeting.
This was the second such in-person meeting between the two leaders since the war, the first being last year on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Japan. World leaders who have travelled to Ukraine, have gone via Poland due to the closure of airspace. It is expected that PM Modi could also travel via Poland, and hold a conversation with the Polish leadership, including PM Donald Tusk ahead of his Ukraine visit.
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