Ukraine's Zelenskiy seeks India PM Modi's help with 'peace formula' - Yahoo News

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy connected Monday said helium sought India's assistance with implementing a "peace formula" successful a telephone telephone with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The speech comes astatine a clip erstwhile India is seeking to fortify commercialized relations with Moscow portion Western nations present caller measures to bounds Russia's backing of the war.

"I had a telephone telephone with PM Narendra Modi and wished a palmy G20 presidency," Zelenskiy wrote connected Twitter. "It was connected this level that I announced the bid look and present I number connected India's information successful its implementation."

Zelenskiy asked the Group of 20 (G20) large economies past period to follow Ukraine's 10-point bid look and to extremity the war. India holds the G20 presidency for a year.

The Indian authorities said successful connection precocious connected Monday that the 2 leaders discussed opportunities for strengthening bilateral cooperation.

"The Prime Minister explained the main priorities of India's G20 Presidency, including giving a dependable to the concerns of processing nations connected issues similar nutrient and vigor security."

Modi besides "strongly reiterated" his telephone for an contiguous extremity to hostilities successful Ukraine and conveyed India's enactment for immoderate bid efforts.

India, which has not explicitly condemned Russia's penetration of Ukraine, has emerged arsenic the largest purchaser of Russian lipid aft China, this period taking barrels of Urals crude astatine good beneath a $60 terms headdress agreed by Western nations.

The country's overseas curate has said that arsenic the world's third-largest user of lipid and gas, wherever income levels are not high, India had to look aft its ain interests and called Russia "a dependable and time-tested partner".

Reuters besides reported past period that Moscow had sent India a database of much than 500 products for imaginable delivery, including parts for cars, craft and trains, arsenic sanctions compression Russia's quality to support captious industries running.

India, too, has sent Russia a database of Indian products for entree to Russian markets, according to the overseas minister, arsenic it seeks to equilibrium bilateral commercialized that is present tilted towards Russia.

(Reporting by Shivam Patel successful New Delhi; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)