December 16, 2022, 15:24 – Public News Service – OSN

Prime Minister India Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation on Friday, December 16. According to TASS, the Indian politician called for dialogue and negotiations on the situation in Ukraine. Modi called this option “the only way forward.”

Before Vladimir Putin himself assessed the situation in Ukraine after relevant request Narendra Modi. At the same time, Putin and Modi promised not to stop the dialogue.

On the eve of the West, journalists reported the readiness of the Ukrainian authorities to give up their claims to Crimea in order to start negotiations with Vladimir Putin. Similar tacticsaccording to analysts, will indicate a direction towards diplomacy and the rejection of attempts to “capture” the peninsula.

At the same time, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), in a regular report on the hostilities in the framework of a special operation in Ukraine, spoke about purposes Vladimir Putin. According to American analysts, the targets have not changed during the special operation.