​PM Modi’s Outreach helped avert “Nuclear” crisis in Ukraine says US officials

​PM Modi’s Outreach helped avert “Nuclear” crisis in Ukraine
says US officials

In 2022, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict raged, the United States began its rigorous prep for a potential nuclear strike by Moscow against Kyiv, in what would have been the first nuclear attack since the US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before.

The CNN report stated that outreach from PM Modi and other countries played a vital role in averting the crisis.

The Biden administration was specifically concerned Russia might use a tactical or battlefield nuclear weapon.

Amid the fears, the US sought to enlist the help of non-allies including India, to discourage Russia from such an attack.

“One of the things they did was not only message them directly but strongly urge, press, encourage other countries, to whom they might be more attentive, to do the same thing.

As per US officials the outreach and public statements from PM Modi helped avert a crisis.

A senior administration quoted that they believed showing the international community the concern about this, particularly the concern from key countries for Russia and the Global South, was also a helpful, persuasive factor and showed them what the cost of all this could be.

PM Modi in a major statement told President Putin that “this is not the era of war” on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Uzbekistan last year. The statement even made to the G20 communique under the presidency of India.

News Edit K.V.Raman