National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to visit Russia this week

NEW DELHI: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will visit Russia this week.Sources close to the ministry sais India can play the role of mediator in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Doval will visit Russia in this context,reports said.

Sources have confirmed new developments related to foreign countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently visited Ukraine and had promised a positive initiative regarding India's role in ending the conflict. Earlier, he went to Russia after becoming Prime Minister for the third time.

Prime Minister Modi had a conversation with President Putin after his Ukraine visit. According to the information, the role of Doval's visit to Russia was decided in this conversation. However, no official information came out in this regard yet.

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had publicly expressed that India and China can play a key role in resolving the Ukraine conflict, National Security Adviser (NSA)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is said to have conveyed some ideas discussed with President Putin during his July visit to Russia when he met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on his August visit to Kyiv.

Modi in his remarks during a meeting with Putin on July 9 made it clear that peace cannot be found in battlefields and that loss of lives of children and innocent people in the Ukraine war was terrible. Doval accompanied the PM during the Russia and Ukraine visits.

Chinese NSA Wang Yi will also be present at the conference, with the Ukraine war top of the agenda. Doval and Wang Yi are also special representatives for talks on the India-China boundary resolution.

“India and the world want the war to end and in that context Modi is talking to all parties. He has no desire to be a mediator between Russia and Ukraine but supports all initiatives to stop the war so that children and women are not targeted by missiles, rockets and bullets,” said a senior official.