Ukrainian Officials Confirm Indian PM Modi Will Visit On August 23

Kyiv has criticized Modi for embracing Putin during a visit to Russia on July 8.

Ukraine has confirmed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit on August 23. On August 19, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office confirmed an earlier announcement by the Indian Foreign Ministry and provided a date. Modi and Zelenskiy will discuss bilateral and multilateral cooperation and several yet-to-be-specified documents will be signed, according to the president's office. The visit comes after Modi's visit last month to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskiy criticized that meeting, saying on July 6 that it was "a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world’s largest democracy embracing the bloodiest criminal in the world.” To read the original story on RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, click here.