India ready to extend help ‘in any manner’ to end Ukraine-Russia war: Jaishankar

India on Thursday (September 3, 2026) said it was ready to extend “any help in any manner” to end the Ukraine-Russia war, which is now in its fifth year, as External Affairs MinisterExternal Affairs MinisterExternal Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held wide-ranging talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv.

“India has consistently maintained that this is not an era of war, and that solutions will not emerge from the battlefield,” Mr. Jaishankar said in a joint press statement alongside Sybiha after their talks.

He recalled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi just two days ago declared that endless war must now give way to the end of war during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bishkek on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.