Minister S Jaishankar with Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, throughout a bilateral assembly to assessment the India-Poland Joint Motion Plan 2024-28, in Warsaw, Poland.
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India has been in steady contact with each the Ukrainian and Russian sides and is attempting to see if there are concepts and strategies which may be developed ultimately that can contribute to the mitigation or the cessation of the battle, Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar mentioned on Friday (September 4, 2026).
Mr. Jaishankar, who arrived in Warsaw from Kyiv, the place he held talks with high Ukrainian management on Thursday (September 3), made the remarks after he met Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and International Minister Radosław Sikorski.
Addressing a joint press meet alongside Sikorski, Jaishankar mentioned that he mentioned the complicated world challenges, together with provide chain resilience and meals, gasoline and fertiliser safety, along with his Polish counterpart.
“The Deputy Prime Minister and I additionally understandably mentioned some main world and regional points, notable amongst them is the warfare in Ukraine, now in its fifth yr… I personally have simply come right here from Kyiv,” he mentioned, referring to his go to to Ukraine a day earlier.
Replying to a query, he mentioned India has been in steady contact with each the Ukrainian and Russian sides.
“What we try to do is to see if there are concepts and strategies which may be developed ultimately by which they are going to contribute to the mitigation, ideally, the cessation of the battle,” he added.
A day earlier, Mr. Jaishankar had mentioned in Ukraine that India is able to lengthen “any assist in any method” to finish the Ukraine-Russia warfare.
He had met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv on Thursday.
After talks with EAM Jaishankar, Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned that he was “grateful to India for its dedication to ending this unjust warfare.” “This definitely should not be a time of warfare. Peace is required. That is India’s clear place,” he mentioned and hoped that different main world powers would additionally take a transparent stance that this warfare should finish and {that a} dependable peace should be achieved.
On Friday, Mr. Jaishankar reiterated that India believes that countless warfare should give technique to an finish to warfare.
“These are wars with out winners. Each further day means extra loss of life, extra destruction, extra loss to the events themselves, and extra price to the remainder of the world,” he mentioned in Warsaw.
He recalled that this concern was voiced publicly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi lately.
“Our efforts should due to this fact concentrate on selling dialogue and diplomacy. We should every do what we are able to in whichever method we imagine may very well be only and help the efforts of others to carry this battle to an finish. That is India’s robust conviction, and we’re appearing on it,” he added. On India’s purchases of Russian oil, the minister mentioned the difficulty is a battle, and its resolution lies in negotiations, not in commerce.
“This warfare just isn’t going to finish… not as a result of any person selected to purchase or not purchase oil or alumina or fertilisers or metals and minerals. It’s going to finish when there’s diplomacy, when there’s dialogue and when there’s negotiation. So, I believe let’s diagnose the issue proper,” he mentioned whereas replying to a different query.
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