On June 7, 2024, Ambassador of Ukraine to India Dr. Oleksandr Polishchuk gave interview to Asian News International (ANI).

Watch interview here.

Ambassador congratulated Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and NDA for winning a majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections: “We are going to congratulate Prime Minister Modi and his team for such great achievement because it’s one of the biggest elections in the world. And he demonstrates his leadership. He demonstrates that he can consolidate the nation around his philosophy and his idea to make India an even more great country than it exists at the moment.” 

Ambassador's key messages:

• “We need India in the peace building process in Ukraine because the Indian leadership, India’s presence at the Peace Summit will reinforce all of the diplomatic forces around the world. And definitely, we need to find a peaceful solution and we need to create stable and prosperous conditions in Ukraine.”
• On India's participation in Global Peace Summit (June 15-16, 2024, Switzerland): “Definitely India will be present. This is what the Prime Minister said a couple of weeks ago. He confirms that India will be present but the level of presence will depend on timing, logistics and parallel commitment.”
• On invitation of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi to visit Ukraine: “it will be the first visit in the entire history of our relationship when the Prime Minister will visit Ukraine.” 
• "I’m very much happy that my President just yesterday had a direct talk with Prime Minister Modi, and they agreed that we will continue to develop our cooperation, which is a very good sign that Prime Minister Modi says that India will increase the effort in peace building process in Ukraine. So we expect that India will be present during the peace summit, which actually will start next week in Switzerland.”
• “We try to secure our people and you know that Russia heavily bombarding Ukraine, especially critical infrastructure in Ukraine, and we are very grateful that India is paying a lot of attention support of Ukraine and so that we will continue our new projects.” 
• "I’m quite happy that you have such a logical sequence and stability in the line of the Government of India and I hope that we will use this opportunity to increase the number of projects in support of Ukraine.”
• On possibility of high-level visits between the two countries: “It’s a very high probability, I should say. Definitely, yes. You probably remember that we had the visit of Ukrainian Foreign Minister to India, and it was agreed that we would have the visit of the Minister of External Affairs of India to Ukraine. So…We’ll see. And we even have a bigger expectation.”