Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (File).
New Delhi:
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reacted sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s transient go to to Russia and his interplay with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a put up on X (previously Twitter) Mr Zelenskyy referred to Russia’s assault Monday – wherein at the very least 37 individuals, together with three kids, had been killed after a missile strike on a kids’s hospital in Kyiv.
The strike additionally broken almost 100 buildings, together with faculties and maternity hospitals.
His tweet included images of the bombed hospital and infants in ambulances.
Mr Zelenskky’s put up got here after Prime Minister Modi met President Putin in Moscow and shared an embrace. Visuals from their assembly confirmed the 2 leaders consuming tea on a terrace at Mr Putin’s residence in Novo-Ogaryovo exterior Moscow, and Mr Modi being pushed round in a golf cart.
One picture specifically – of Mr Modi and Mr Putin hugging – has been broadly shared on-line.
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And the Ukraine President was significantly important of that picture, posting, “It’s a big disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the chief of the world’s largest democracy hug the world’s most bloody prison in Moscow on such a day…”
In Ukraine at this time, 37 individuals had been killed, three of whom had been kids, and 170 had been injured, together with 13 kids, on account of Russia’s brutal missile strike.
A Russian missile struck the biggest kids’s hospital in Ukraine, concentrating on younger most cancers sufferers. Many had been… pic.twitter.com/V1k7PEz2rJ
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 8, 2024
PM Modi flew into Moscow on a two-day go to that treads a high quality line between sustaining a longstanding relationship and courting nearer ties with the West amid the warfare in Ukraine.
That is the Prime Minister’s first go to since he was voted again to energy final month.
It’s also his first to Russia because the warfare in Ukraine started.
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Sources have advised NDTV that Mr Modi, throughout his assembly with Mr Putin, burdened no resolution – to the violence – may very well be discovered on the battlefield. “India has all the time referred to as for respecting the United Nations Constitution, together with territorial integrity and sovereignty. There isn’t a resolution on the battlefield. Dialogue and diplomacy is the best way ahead,” Mr Modi is believed to have mentioned.
Mr Modi has additionally spoken to Mr Zelenskyy on quite a few events, together with assembly him in Italy final month on the sidelines of the G7 summit. The 2 had been photographed sharing a hug. Their first face-to-face assembly because the warfare began was in Could final yr, on the G7 summit hosted by Japan.
In a cellphone name with President Zelenskyy in October 2022, PM Modi mentioned there might be “no army resolution” and that India is able to contribute to any peace efforts
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Ever because the warfare started India has maintained it will probably solely be resolved by means of dialogue and diplomacy, and the Prime Minister has mentioned “India is able to contribute to any peace efforts”.
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