India's Prime Minister Modi is planning a surprising visit to Kiev, signaling India's potential role as a mediator in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This move comes after Ukraine's Foreign Minister hinted at resuming peace talks with Russia, causing concern in India that China might take the lead in brokering peace. If China were to succeed, it could leverage this influence to pressure Russia against India, which heavily relies on Russian military supplies. By stepping in, Modi aims to secure India's strategic interests, prevent China from gaining more power, and potentially reset troubled ties with both the US and Ukraine.
From Russia’s perspective, it would be more ideal for India to mediate a resolution to this conflict than for China to do so since its established balancing/pragmatic policymaking faction wants to avoid diplomatic indebtedness to Beijing.
India’s WION cited unnamed diplomatic sources to report on Friday that Prime Minister Modi is planning to visi...
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