Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Friday and paid tributes to children who got killed in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Modi, who reached the Ukraine capital Kyiv on Friday, met the Ukrainian president at the Martyrologist Exposition, a memorial built in memory of children killed in the war. Modi hugged Zelenskyy and paid tributes to children killed in the war.
Earlier, the prime minister paid tributes to statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Kyiv. Modi reached Ukraine's capital Kyiv from Poland on a special train on Friday. He took a 10-hour rail journey in Rail Force One from Poland to reach Kyiv.
#WATCH | PM Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy honour the memory of children at the Martyrologist Exposition in Kyiv pic.twitter.com/oV8bbZ8bQh
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This is the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Ukraine since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The prime minister travelled in a special train for 10 hours from Poland to Ukraine’s capital. Modi is expected to spend over seven hours in the war-torn country.
The prime minister’s visit to Kyiv comes nearly six weeks after his high-profile trip to the Russian capital Moscow. The visit had triggered criticism from the US and some of its Western allies.
PM Modi had earlier met with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy's Apulia in June.
