Ukraine ready to talk peace with Donald Trump, looks to India for support

“Before I adjacent get astatine the Oval Office, soon aft we triumph the presidency, I volition person the horrible warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine settled,” Trump had vowed astatine a run rally successful June past year. Russia’s overseas curate Sergey Lavrov precocious said that helium welcomed signals coming from the US President-elect implicit the Ukraine conflict.

Several weeks ago, Yermak visited the US and met Marco Rubio, Trump’s nominee for the Secretary of State. “We volition not suffer clip and instantly commencement moving towards it (after Trump’s inauguration),” helium added.

On India’s imaginable role, Yermak said, “India is 1 of the biggest democracies successful the world, and not conscionable regional, but a satellite leader, and its presumption tin play a large role. During the past 2 years, we person held a batch of meetings connected the level of the bid formula, which was mooted successful Switzerland.”

“I americium waiting to proceed dialog with my Indian workfellow Ajit Doval (national information advisor) with whom we person worked each this play of time,” helium added, “The planetary extremity is to extremity this war, I americium definite the presumption of India that this warfare has to extremity is highly important, not conscionable by immoderate impermanent ceasefire but by bringing peace.”

During the interaction, Yermak, on with UK-based Baroness Helena Kennedy, International Human Rights Lawyer & Labour subordinate of the House of Lords, besides spoke connected the devastating humanitarian situation facing children successful war-torn areas, peculiarly Ukrainian children who person been forcibly displaced oregon deported from their homes.

Kennedy, co-chair of the Bring Kids Back Task Force, highlighted the alarming concern of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces, estimating that betwixt 10,000 to 19,000 children person been taken nether the pretense of safety. She emphasized the terrible intelligence interaction this could person connected the children, and of them losing their consciousness of individuality and memory.

They besides sought India’s assistance successful bringing Ukrainian children back, specially since PM Modi could intervene and evacuate Indian aesculapian students stuck successful Ukraine astatine the opening of the war, Yermak said, adding that President Zelenskyy discussed this contented with PM Modi during his 2024 sojourn to Kyiv.

“Of course, President Zelenskyy discussed this contented with Prime Minister Modi during his sojourn to Kyiv (in August 2024) and helium said India is acceptable to enactment and beryllium progressive successful this process to assistance bring backmost Ukrainian children. India has a truly large power connected Russia, they tin person this accidental to help. We number connected India’s participation,” said the official.

He, successful fact, said that the astir affectional infinitesimal of the sojourn of PM Modi was erstwhile helium visited the memorial of the children who mislaid their lives successful conflict. PM Modi had honoured the memories of children who person mislaid their lives successful the ongoing Russia-Ukraine struggle with folded hands and a soundless supplication earlier placing a tiny artifact (a doll) astatine the memorial arsenic the Ukrainian President placed a teddy bear.

“President @ZelenskyyUa and I paid homage astatine the Martyrologist Exposition successful Kyiv. Conflict is peculiarly devastating for young children. My bosom goes retired to the families of children who mislaid their lives, and I commune that they find the spot to endure their grief,” Modi posted connected X aft the visit.

A study by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), released connected December 3 past twelvemonth said that arsenic galore arsenic 314 Ukrainian children person been coerced by Russia into forced adoption since the warfare broke retired successful February 2022. The 314 children see 148 children listed successful Russia’s kid placement databases and 166 children placed straight with citizens of Russia, the findings suggest.

The study titled ‘Russia’s Systematic Program of the Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children’, offers an investigation of Ukrainian children reportedly removed from their homes and placed for adoption successful Russia. In airy of the report, the Ukrainian authorities has called connected Russia to supply a broad registry of each Ukrainian children presently successful its custody.