“History was made today. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his first visit to Ukraine since our country’s independence, on the eve of Independence Day.” This is how a post on social media began in which the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskydoes not hide his satisfaction at the arrival in Kiev of the head of the government of New Delhi.
Zelensky announced on X that Ukraine and India have reached four agreements covering the medical field, agricultural cooperation, humanitarian relations and culture. “After the visit, we also agreed on a joint statement focused on developing a strategic partnership, bilateral trade and continued military-technical cooperation,” Zelensky added, adding that “India supports the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. And this is crucial because everyone in the world must respect the UN Charter equally.”
“India stands with Ukraine“, said Modi who confirmed the willingness to “play a friendly role”reports the Times of India.
Modi’s arrival at the Mariinsky Palace, home to the presidential office, was marked by a hug with Zelensky, six weeks after the latter’s ire over Modi’s embrace in Moscow with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. A “warm embrace” this morning, according to the ANI agency. The images showed Zelensky with a drawn face.
Modi, who arrived in Kiev by train from Poland, was accompanied by Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishhankar. Modi, who was recently confirmed in power, is the first visit to Ukraine by an Indian prime minister since 1991. Modi, the Indian Foreign Minister announced, invited Zelensky to visit India. The Asian giant has never adhered to sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow: “We are identifying other Western journalists who have crossed the Kursk border”
Meanwhile, Moscow has announced that it is identifying other Western journalists who have crossed the border at Kursk. “Our law enforcement agencies, our diplomats and experts in charge of following up on these issues, They are identifying the so-called Western journalists who have illegally crossed the border of our country without authorization documentswithout a visa, without a residence permit, and certainly without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”, said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, quoted by the Tass agency, underlining that “it is not only Italian and American journalists (actually British, ed.) who have done it”.
As for the cases already open, Zakharova wanted to underline their seriousness: “We are talking about criminal cases. This includes, among other things, an arrest warrant, a court case, deadlines. So it will be a more serious and complex situation for them (for the two Italian journalists and the British one, ed.) than a refusal to grant a visa and a rejection. They must understand that they will be held criminally accountable”.
“Unfortunately, journalists from other countries, including Spain, France and Belgium, have been caught doing so,” he added after criminal investigations were opened last week against RAI journalists Stefania Battistini and Simone Traini, and CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh who entered Kursk.
“Security agencies are now collecting evidence and appropriate decisions will be taken,” he added. Moscow, he stressed, has “repeatedly” used Russian diplomatic missions and embassies to convey the “inadmissibility” of such actions to Western media since they are “predominantly” violating such norms. “Such actions will be suppressed and punished by law, we are committed to doing so.” Yesterday, criminal investigations were opened with the same charges against two Ukrainian journalists, Diana Butsko and Olesya Borovik.
Russia accuses: “Ukraine attempted attack on Kursk nuclear power plant with kamikaze drone”
Russia has meanwhile accused Ukraine of attempting to attack its nuclear power plant in Kursk. Moscow claims that “the Kiev regime” attempted to attack the Kurchatov nuclear power plant in Russia’s Kursk region with a “kamikaze drone and commit an act of nuclear terrorism”. This is what the Tass agency reports, adding that the drone was shot down near the plant “by Russian electronic defense systems”. According to the Russian agency, the downed drone was recovered near the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
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