Ukraine’s youngest parliamentarian Sviatoslav Yurash on Wednesday said India should reconsider its stand on Russia and punish it for the actions done by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the past 20 years.
“As far as India-Russia relations are concerned, you have a treaty on strategic friendship and partnership, so I think you need to rethink that. Not only Ukraine but the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he said. You need to reconsider this treaty in view of all those misdeeds committed by Russia for the last 20 years. Russia should punish Russia.”
Speaking to news agency ANI, Svyatoslav said, “India is one of the countries that will decide the fate of this century. As far as India’s position on Russian relations is concerned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to our President I am grateful for that. We are grateful for the humanitarian steps being taken by India.”
India has taken a cautious approach to responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Apart from this, India is in touch with both the Ukrainian and Russian governments for the safe evacuation of citizens stranded in Ukraine. PM Modi has spoken to both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin and appealed for an immediate end to the violence. However, it stayed away from resolutions against Russia at the United Nations.
Russian envoy to India Denis Alipov recently said that the current crisis in Ukraine will have consequences for the whole world including Russia-India relations, while at the same time, India has the opportunity to strengthen economic ties with Russia at this critical time. have the opportunity.