India PM Modi to visit Ukraine, weeks after rebuking Putin in Moscow

File photo of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting during the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima, Japan on May 20, 2023. - Reuters

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Monday (Aug 19), his first trip to the war-torn country since its conflict with Russia and about a month after he met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Details of the trip will be shared later in the day, the foreign ministry said, adding that he would also be visiting Poland. Indian media have reported that Modi is expected to visit the two countries, possibly from Aug 21 to 23.