The Polish minister also endorsed India's diplomatic approach to the West Asia conflict and pointed to New Delhi's long-standing relationship with Moscow as a key reason it remains an influential interlocutor in global crises.
The Greek philosopher Plato once said: “It is for the elder man to rule and for the younger to submit.”
Russia launched a fresh missile and drone assault on Kyiv early Monday, hours before a NATO summit in Ankara where the Ukraine war is expected to top the agenda.
Emphasising decades of strategic cooperation, Vladimir Putin highlighted defence collaboration, technology sharing and joint projects such as BrahMos while reaffirming Russia's commitment to India.
Vladimir Putin's response came after Zelenskyy wrote an "open letter" to the Russian President.
David Salvo, the Managing Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at German Marshall Fund and a former senior policy advisor at the US State Department, believes that the possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky remains "extremely low" even though Washington has announced the beginning of "arrangements for a meeting" between both leaders.
The days following the Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have revealed much about the shifting geometry of wartime diplomacy.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could happen in the next two weeks.
Modi and Putin also touched upon a number of issues of bilateral cooperation with a view to further strengthen the Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between India and Russia.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a global player for many years, so the US cannot but communicate with him to settle the conflict in Ukraine.
