Jaishankar lands in Poland on 3-day trip, Ukraine will be next stop

Jaishankar is the first senior Indian leader to travel to Ukraine since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country in August 2024

Published on: Sep 2, 2026, 21:56:43 IST

By Rezaul H Laskar, NEW DELHI

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External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday arrived in Poland on a three-day visit that will also take him to Ukraine for meetings to review bilateral ties with both countries amid growing tensions over Russia’s actions.

Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was at the Kremlin in Moscow last month (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Sputnik Kr)

During his visit, Jaishankar will hold bilateral consultations with his counterparts Andrii Sybiha of Ukraine and Radoslaw Sikorski of Poland, the external affairs ministry said.

The visit will focus on enhancing bilateral relations and provide an opportunity to discuss regional developments and issues of mutual interest, the ministry said without giving details.

Jaishankar is the first senior Indian leader to travel to Ukraine since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country in August 2024. His visit comes days after an Indian national was killed and another injured in Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.

At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Kyrgyzstan on Monday, Modi urged the Russian leader to move from “endless war to the end of war”. The remarks came against the backdrop of stepped-up Russian attacks on Ukraine that have killed dozens of civilians.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s key aide Sergiy Kyslytsya met India’s new ambassador to Kyiv, Anjani Kumar, and discussed bilateral relations. Kyslytsya, the first deputy head of the office of the President, said on social media that the discussions had covered “India’s role in efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine”.

“We also exchanged views on Prime Minister @narendramodi’s recent message to Vladimir Putin: the time has come to move from an endless war to an end of war,” he said. “We look forward to continued dialogue with India and to translating this shared interest in peace into concrete steps.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rezaul H Laskar
Rezaul Hasan Laskar is Foreign Editor with the Hindustan Times, which he joined in 2015. He began as a journalist in his hometown of Shillong in northeast India and has worked in newspapers and wire services over the years. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and initially focused on defence, national security, Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, while also working of foreign policy and international relations. He has been part of the media delegation accompanying PMs on foreign visits and has reported from destinations ranging from Tibet to Ukraine. Between 2007 and 2013, he was the Press Trust of India correspondent in Pakistan, one of only two Indian journalists allowed to report from the country. He extensively covered Pakistan’s domestic politics and the life of the common people, as well as the fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on India-Pakistan relations and the subsequent trial in Pakistan of the suspects involved in the attack. As part of his reportage in Pakistan, he travelled the breadth of the country, from the Swat Valley to Balochistan. Reza’s first gig in journalism was writing a weekly music column, and music – especially classic rock – remains a keen interest. He is also a movie buff and a keen photographer.Read More

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