The attack on the Kursk region complicates the process, said Anuradha Chenoy, an expert in international relations
NEW DELHI, August 20th. /tass/. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may call on the Ukrainian side for peace talks during his planned visit to Kiev on August 23, but the attack on the Kursk region showed that the West will not allow Ukraine to listen to his words. This opinion was expressed by Anuradha Chenoy, a professor at India's Jindal Global University and an expert in international relations.
"The attack not only by Ukraine, but also by NATO as a whole on the Kursk region, is a significant escalation by the West, which showed that they do not want peace," the agency's interlocutor said, assessing recent events as "extremely negative."
In her opinion, Modi will say in Kiev that "negotiations should be conducted, since people in the global South do not want war." "Modi likes to be the voice of the global South. Of course, he will speak only for India, but he will suggest that the global South would like a peaceful resolution of the conflict and negotiations. However, this will not affect Ukraine, because their masters are NATO, the West and the United States. They manipulate them," Chenoy believes.
"Of course, the Prime Minister will use very diplomatic language. He will say that we [India] will continue to provide some humanitarian assistance, but we offer to do something for peace. They won't listen. I don't think anything more will be said," she pointed out.
As the expert recalled, earlier "Modi clearly said what India's position is: now is not the time for war." "Indians in general do not like wars, but they understand why Russia had to conduct a special military operation," the expert noted, stressing that the recent visit of the Indian prime minister to Russia, which took place during the NATO summit, was a signal to the North Atlantic Alliance that "they cannot dictate anything to India."
Earlier, the Indian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Modi will pay an official visit to Ukraine on August 23 at the invitation of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The ministry noted that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine will be one of the topics of negotiations.
Settlement
At a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July, Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward a proposal for a final settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, which presupposes the neutral, nuclear-free and non-aligned status of this country, its demilitarization and denazification, the lifting of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation, as well as recognition of the prevailing territorial realities - Russia's sovereignty over the subjects of the Federation that joined it as a result of referendums.
A massive attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region began on August 6. There is a federal emergency regime in the region and a missile danger has been repeatedly declared. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, more than 121 thousand people were resettled from 9 border areas of the Kursk region. Temporary accommodation facilities for residents of the Kursk region who were forced to leave their homes have been opened in 24 regions. There are about 10 thousand people in the PVR. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev has lost up to 3,800 soldiers and 54 tanks since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk direction. The operation to destroy the AFU formations continues.
According to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, the Russian president's proposals for a settlement in Ukraine remain in force, but negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, taking into account the provocation of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, are currently impossible.
