President Zelenskyy met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 23 in New York, and the leaders and their entourages discussed the path to a peace agreement.
Politico writes that a high-ranking Ukrainian official anonymously confirmed that Kyiv has high hopes that India can contribute to an acceptable peace agreement. Although New Delhi has consistently refrained from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, India advocates respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and an end to the war.
Six weeks after Modi’s trip to Moscow sparked outrage in Ukraine, he visited Kyiv and pledged to help broker a peace deal. India may be the only global player capable of convincingly presenting itself as a neutral party to both Moscow and Kyiv.
India’s Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said his country has no peaceful plan to end the full-scale invasion but was in constant communication with both sides to see if there was anything New Delhi could do to facilitate negotiations and hasten the war’s end.