India’s National Security Advisor will visit Russia

According to Isna, the newspaper “India Today” reported on Sunday evening, quoting diplomatic sources, that “Ajit Doval”, the National Security Adviser of India, will travel to Russia on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week for consultations on Ukraine peace and other issues between Moscow and New Delhi.

According to the newspaper’s report, Doval will “meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss India’s peace efforts aimed at a peaceful resolution of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war” in Moscow.

According to sources of this media, India’s National Security Adviser will also participate in the meeting of BRICS security officials and will talk to the representatives of Russia and China separately.

The report of Doval’s visit to Russia comes in the wake of a major diplomatic effort by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

In July, Modi visited Moscow and said he and Putin were able to discuss the crisis “openly and openly”. The Russian President, in turn, thanked the Prime Minister for his efforts to find a way to resolve the conflict.

The visit was accompanied by an angry reaction from Kiev, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “a great disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts.”

In the same vein, last month, Modi visited Ukraine for talks with Zelensky, becoming the first Indian leader to visit the country. While in Kiev, the Indian Prime Minister emphasized that “dialogue and diplomacy” are the only means to end the war.

He told the leader of Ukraine: “India was never neutral in this war, we are on the side of peace.”

According to Bloomberg, Modi also agreed to send “messages” between the two sides.

Last week, this website wrote, quoting “informed sources”, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a meeting with Narendra Modi a few days ago, following the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to his country, proposed holding a summit hosted by India with He raised the issue of ending the war with Russia.

According to Bloomberg, Zelensky is trying to hold another summit on ending the war with Russia before the November presidential election in the United States, which will follow the previous summit in June hosted by Switzerland, and he is trying to To attract the support of the countries of the “World South” block (developing countries).

Responding to Bloomberg’s request for comment on the report, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said the Indian prime minister had sent a signal that he was willing to play a “constructive role” in the Ukraine peace process, although he was “yet to comment on It is too early to determine the specific conditions and paths of this process at the current stage.

On the other hand, recently the President of Russia introduced three countries, China, Brazil and India, as possible mediators in resolving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“I have no doubt that the leaders of these countries are really eager to help resolve all the details of this complicated process,” he said.

Putin reiterated that Moscow has never ruled out talks with Kiev, but emphasized that these talks should be conducted “not on the basis of some fleeting demands, but on the basis of the documents agreed upon in Istanbul.”

The two sides have not communicated directly since their talks in Turkey’s largest city in late March 2022. Russia, which initially expressed satisfaction with the results of the meeting and withdrew its troops from the outskirts of Kiev as a goodwill gesture, later accused Ukraine of rolling back all the progress made in Istanbul and said it had lost its confidence in the Kiev negotiators. has lost

India Today’s report on India’s diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine coincides with Russia’s increasing advances on Ukraine’s eastern front and Kiev’s efforts to attract more support from its Western allies.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia announced on Sunday that the “Center” units took control of the town of “Novogrodovka” located in Donetsk.

Referring to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the Sputnik News agency reported: “The units of the “South” unit continued to advance in the depth of the enemy’s defense, and the Ukrainian side lost about 625 military personnel and 6 ammunition depots.

According to what analysts and western media say about its weakness and lack of forces and ammunition, the Ukrainian army launched an unexpected attack on the Kursk region of Russia on August 6 (16 August), and this is while the Ukrainian army is not only able to maintain its positions. It was not itself, but it has suffered heavy losses in “Kursk” and also in “Donbass”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week in this regard and referring to the situation of Russian military operations in Ukraine: “Currently, we are not talking about advances of 200 to 300 meters, but the Russian armed forces are advancing in terms of square kilometers, and we are up to We haven’t had such a speed in Donbas yet.”

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