The Punjab government on Thursday wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and urged it to bring back home Indian youth who have been "forcibly inducted" into the Russian Military and sent in the Ukraine war.
Although Chairman Xi Jinping has a personal affinity with President Vladimir Putin, the two countries' bilateral relations are marked by reserve rather than trust.
India's position on the Russia-Ukraine war is very well known, and it has been conveyed at various levels, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.
Urging the Western countries to deliver the pledged military aid timely to Ukraine, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said that Kyiv is losing personnel and territories in the war against Russia.
In an interview with ANI, he highlighted the importance of Raisina Dialogue and spoke about his participation in a panel with Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani.
Iryna Borovets expressed gratitude to India for providing humanitarian help to Ukraine and added that they will appreciate if they receive more humanitarian support from India in future.
"Putin had an idea about a special operation for the six days. Instead of six days of special operation, what Putin planned, now we have like two years full scale war within all the horrible things. And it is not just a military conflict. We know that more than 20,000 kids has been deported