Russia-Ukraine War

Meeting the Russian President on the margins of the BRICS summit on 11 September, Prime Minister Modi pressed for an end to the war in Ukraine. Russia separately welcomed India’s efforts towards a settlement. The New Delhi Declaration made no separate mention of the war.

The Russian President ordered a 72-hour halt to attacks on the Ukrainian capital on 5 September, as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow. The move came four and a half years into the war and after days of escalating aerial attacks by both sides.