India should partner with the US in fostering lasting and just peace in Ukraine. This request was made after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tour to Russia.
US Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the State Department, Vedant Patel, spoke out Thursday on the subject of India-US relations. “In general, India is a country we work in jointly, and as I said, last summer during Prime Minister Modi’s state visit this was very clearly evident.”
Patel added: “We continue our endeavor to create an enduring and just peace for Ukraine against the backdrop of Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russian aggression aimed at violating its territorial sovereignty and also call on our partners including India to do so while urging them to withdraw their forces from Ukraine’s sovereignty territory.”
From July 8-9, PM Modi held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized this visit calling it a “hard blow” to peace.
The PM broached the subject of civilian casualties in his discussion with Putin and he noted that: “Humanity gets hurt even by one loss of life…But when innocent children are killed… When they die like flies…it is heart-breaking. That pain is unimaginable.”
Modi has condemned the recent missile strike on Kyiv children’s hospital killing thirty seven children. In addition he said “This could be war; it could be conflict. It could be terrorism – but anybody who believes in humanity knows what it feels like when lives are lost. But when innocent kids are murdered, when you see innocent children being killed like there were flies, then heart-rending.”
He insisted that battlefield can’t settle anything stating that there cannot be successful negotiations if hostilities continue. PM Modis’ trip marked his first visit to Russia since Moscow-Kyiv war began in 2022. For years now, India has consistently pushed for “peace and diplomacy” as solution points between Ukraine and Russia throughout the Conflict.
