{"id":66358,"date":"2024-08-23T15:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/modi-to-visit-ukraine-amid-controversy-over-hug-for-putin"},"modified":"2024-08-24T01:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:56:01","slug":"modi-to-meet-zelenskiy-in-ukraine-amid-controversy-over-hug-for-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66358","title":{"rendered":"Modi tells Zelenskiy he is ready to work \u2018as a friend\u2019 to bring about peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian PM says he respects and supports \u2018sovereignty and territorial integrity\u2019 of Ukraine during historic visit <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, made a historic visit to Kyiv on Friday and told Volodymyr Zelenskiy he was ready to work \u201cas a friend\u201d to bring about a peace deal that would end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Modi said he respected and supported Ukraine\u2019s \u201csovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. \u201cIt is our highest priority,\u201d he said, adding that he had told Vladimir Putin during their meeting in July that \u201cproblems cannot be resolved on the battlefield\u201d. The war could only end through \u201cdialogue and diplomacy\u201d, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/modi-to-visit-ukraine-amid-controversy-over-hug-for-putin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian PM says he respects and supports \u2018sovereignty and territorial integrity\u2019 of Ukraine during historic visit India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, made a historic visit to Kyiv on Friday and told Volodymyr Zelenskiy he was ready to work \u201cas a frie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,62,433,419,61,930,818,2525,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-volodymyr-zelenskiy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66358\/revisions\/66377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}