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Modi invites Ukraine's President Zelenskyy to visit India

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August 25, 2025

Indian Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has extended an invitation to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit India.

- BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Confirming this, Oleksandr Polishchuk, the Ukrainian Ambassador to India, told ANI on Saturday that both sides are actively coordinating to finalize the details of the visit.

The ambassador said: "The Indian Prime Minister invited Zelensky to come to India. Both sides are working on this."

"We expect President Zelenskyy to be in India, definitely. It will be a great achievement in our bilateral relationship... We are trying to agree on a precise date...," he added.

"I'm very grateful that since 2023, we have had the very intense dialogue between two countries. Prime Minister Modi and my President met a lot of times on the sidelines of the different conferences at the UN General Assembly. And I know that we have the plan to continue this interaction between two leaders," the envoy added.

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