Express View on Modi’s communication with Putin and Zelenskyy: Calling Moscow and Kyiv

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for an early end to the war in Ukraine, in his phone calls on Wednesday to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, comes amid the military stalemate on the ground and a gathering political sentiment in favour of a negotiated settlement. It is perhaps premature to talk of a major Indian role in ending the brutal war in the heart of Europe. The earlier initiatives by Turkey and China to promote a ceasefire and negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv had fizzled out. But the conditions for productive peace talks might...