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KYIV (UKRAINE) – Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to discuss shipping in the Black Sea and food security, Ukraine’s authorities said.<\/p>\n
Kyiv hailed the visit, Jaishankar’s first standalone trip to Ukraine, as “historic” and called for a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
It follows a meeting earlier this week between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands of civilians and turned into Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.<\/p>\n
Moscow has also hampered exports of Ukrainian food products through a campaign of port and ship strikes on the Black Sea.<\/p>\n
“We are grateful to India for its commitment to ending this unjust war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media after meeting Jaishankar.<\/p>\n
“We discussed the situation in the Black Sea, including the existing threats to civilian shipping,” Zelensky said.<\/p>\n
“It is absolutely unacceptable to block food supplies to regions where this is a highly sensitive issue and where people depend on these maritime routes,” he added.<\/p>\n
Jaishankar told reporters in Kyiv: “Every passing day of conflict only means more deaths and more destruction.”<\/p>\n
“Understandably, it is for the parties involved to find a way. But if India can be of any help in any manner, we are ready. And this was the core of my discussion today so far,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga called Jaishankar’s visit a “historic moment”.<\/p>\n
He said Kyiv was “constantly under attack”, adding: “I appreciate my colleague’s brave visit.”<\/p>\n
“While the minister was here with us in Kyiv, Russia once again launched jet-powered ‘shaheds’, which were developed not without Iran’s help,” Zelensky said.<\/p>\n
He added the the Indian delegation “was safe because it is Ukrainian fighter jets that shoot down most of these drones”.<\/p>\n
Since last week, jet-powered drones have been attacking Kyiv and surrounding areas, triggering multiple air raid alerts per day, causing damage to residential buildings and wounding civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 3 Sep 2026 at 21:45 In Kyiv Jaishankar (L) said ‘Every passing day of conflict only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12814,12816,12817,12815,443,8030,12813,35],"class_list":["post-36925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-black-sea-food-security","tag-global-food-supply-chain","tag-international-maritime-security","tag-kyiv-diplomatic-visit","tag-russia-ukraine-conflict","tag-s-jaishankar","tag-ukraine-india-relations","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}