New Delhi :
The crucial vote at the UN Security Council on the Russian attack on Ukraine in mind and international discourse, Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Friday spoke to External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and shared his assessment of the current situation.
Jaishankar too held a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and underlined that dialogue and diplomacy are the best way forward to deal with the crisis.
PM Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin also held tele talks on Thursday evening.
In talks with counterpart from Ukraine, Jaishankar said he emphasised that India supports diplomacy and dialogue as the “way out”.
“Received call from Ukrainian FM @DmytroKuleba. He shared his assessment of the current situation.I emphasised that India supports diplomacy & dialogue as the way out,” Jaishankar tweeted.
“Discussed predicament of Indian nationals, including students. Appreciate his support for their safe return,” he added.
The UN Security Council is scheduled to vote on Friday evening on a draft resolution on Russia’s military operation in Ukraine as well as the escalating situation in the eastern European country.
The draft resolution is set to condemn in the strongest terms Russia’s military operation in Ukraine that has triggered strong outrage by the Western powers.
When asked at a media briefing on Thursday about India’s position on the draft UN Security resolution on the Ukraine crisis, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said India has seen it and that New Delhi’s stand will depend on the final shape of its text.
“I am told that that would undergo considerable changes. We will wait to see the shape that the resolution takes before we can pronounce ourselves and the position that we will take on the issue,” he said.
In the midst of the escalating situation in Ukraine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a telephonic conversation with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday during which he appealed for ending violence, and called for concerted efforts from all sides to return to the path of diplomatic dialogue.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed multiple reports of Russian missile strikes in a national address early on Friday.
Loud explosions were heard in Kyiv in the early hours of Friday morning.
Two multi-story residential buildings were seen on fire in south-east Kyiv after they were reportedly hit by falling debris from an aircraft that was shot down.
Photos published by Ukraine’s state emergency services department show a multi-story building burning.
The Ukrainian interior ministry said it shot down a Russian aircraft over Kyiv. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said the Russian aircraft was hit by the Ukrainian air force and fell in the Darnitsky district.
Russian forces were within kilometres of reaching Kyiv, according to US officials.
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers that Russian mechanised forces that entered Ukraine from Belarus were about 20 miles (32km) from Kyiv.
(Moscow Times reported...)
President Vladimir Putin is ready to send a delegation to Minsk for talks with Ukraine, the Kremlin said Friday as its military encircled Kyiv on the second day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The negotiations could put an end to Ukraine’s NATO ambitions after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was willing to discuss Ukraine’s “neutrality” — a demand of Putin's — in his latest attempt to appeal to the Russian leader to negotiate. The Kremlin said it took note of Zelenskiy’s offer.
China’s foreign ministry also said that Putin told Chinese leader Xi Jinping by phone that “Russia is ready for high-level talks with Ukraine.”
China is not happy with the manner Russia acted in Ukraine.
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