After PM Modi's intervention, Putin changed plan of nuclear attack on Ukraine: Report

Prime Minister Narendra Modi played an important role in stopping Russia from planning a nuclear attack on Ukraine. This claim has been made in an American report. After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the year 2022, America started making vigorous preparations to deal with a possible nuclear attack by Moscow against Kiev. According to news agency ANI, CNN has given this news quoting two senior administrative officials. The report also says that the persuasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other countries also helped in averting this crisis.

CNN quoted two senior administration officials as saying that this would have been the first nuclear attack since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost eighty years ago, but the outreach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other countries also played an important role in averting the crisis. Played. Officials said the Biden administration was particularly concerned that Russia could use tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons.

According to CNN report, amid apprehensions, America sought the help of non-allies including India to prevent Russia from carrying out a nuclear attack. "One of the things we did was not only to send them a direct message, but to persuade, pressure and encourage other countries, to whom they might pay more attention, to do the same thing," the senior administration official said. Was."

US officials say support and public statements from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others helped avert the crisis. "I think we believe that showing concern to the international community about this, particularly the concern of Russia and key countries to the global South, was a helpful, motivating factor and showed them," CNN said in a statement. What could be the price of all this?"

The senior administrative official said, "We know that India increased weight, China increased weight, others increased weight, this must have had some impact on their thinking. I cannot present any facts regarding this, but I think that This is our assessment."

With regard to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, India has always condemned civilian killings and called for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. PM Modi had told President Putin on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Uzbekistan last year that "this is not an era of war", a statement which was also made in the G20 communique under India's chairmanship.