How did PM Modi intervene in Russia-Ukraine war? EAM S Jaishankar says ‘we took two calls…’
Ukraine-Russia conflict since Vladimir Putin started the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He made phone calls with Putin and Volodymyr Zelansky to ensure safe passage for Indians stranded in war-torn regions. Putin and Zelensky have invited him to their respective countries after the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
The Indian government launched ‘Operation Ganga’ to safely evacuate its citizens stranded in neighbouring countries of Ukraine during the war. Students who returned from Ukraine praised PM Modi for bringing them back safely from the war zone. ’ Also Read | Jaishankar speaks on India's stand on China “People are genuinely interested…I’ve had functions from Odisha to Maharashtra, where students or families of students who came out of Ukraine wanted to come up to the stage to thank us for it," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times. Speaking about PM Modi's intervention in Ukraine-Russia crisis, Jaishankar stated that the Prime Minister had a conversation with Russian President Putin when shelling started in Kharkiv and told him “Look, this was an agreement between your people and our people, this is happening.
So I would request you to personally have someone look into this and stop it". “It took a few hours, but the Russian shelling stopped and the buses went there to pick them up and brought them out," the minister told HT while narrating the second incident when PM Modi stepped in. Referring to Sumy city in Ukraine, Jaishankar said, “… everybody else in Ukraine had got out or was getting out.
And this one place was stuck. It was a particularly complicated place….so everybody was firing at everybody else. And the students started getting more and more
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