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- S Jaishankar told Polish Deputy PM Radosław Sikorski in Warsaw on Friday that India is in "continuous touch" with both Ukraine and Russia, working to develop ideas for conflict mitigation or cessation.
- Jaishankar arrived in Warsaw from Kyiv, where he had met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha the previous day; Zelenskyy said he was "grateful to India for its commitment to ending this unjust war."
- Jaishankar rejected the link between trade and the war's end, saying the conflict "will end when there is diplomacy, when there is dialogue and when there is negotiation" — not through oil purchase decisions.
- Jaishankar described the war, "now in its fifth year," as "wars without winners," with "every additional day means more death, more destruction, more loss to the parties themselves, and more cost to the rest of the world."
- Jaishankar said PM Narendra Modi has voiced the same concern publicly, reinforcing India's conviction that the focus must be on promoting dialogue and diplomacy.
- India and Poland also discussed supply chain resilience and food, fuel, and fertilizer security during the Warsaw talks.
Why it matters: Jaishankar's explicit rejection of the oil-purchase linkage is New Delhi's clearest pushback against Western framing that ties Indian energy ties to the war — India is positioning itself as a diplomatic intermediary without conditioning engagement on its own commercial relationships. With the conflict in its fifth year and dialogue channels open with both Moscow and Kyiv, New Delhi is carving out a mediator role that protects its energy autonomy.
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