Ukraine is committed to peace but not at the expense of giving up its territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a sit down with representatives of the Indian media that was published on Aug. 25.

Ukraine is committed to peace but not at the expense of giving up its territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a sit down with representatives of the Indian media that was published on Aug. 25.

Zelensky spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the need for Russia’s war to end during the latter’s historic visit to Kyiv on Aug. 23.

“When you say ‘diplomacy’, I’m all for it, but I’d like to see concrete steps that are not at the expense of 30% of our state and not at the expense of our population. If there is such a plan, we’re all for it,” Zelensky said.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    I got banned in another Lemmy server for commenting on this Modi quote the other day. He’s basically equivocating on taking a side while calling for “peace”.

    https://lemmy.world/comment/11950407

    “We were not neutral from day one, we have taken a side, and we stand firmly for peace,” Modi said.

    Modi is paying the first visit to Ukraine by an Indian prime minister.

    As he pushed for a way forward on ending the Ukraine war, Modi urged Zelensky to sit down for talks with Russia and offered to act as a “friend” to help bring peace.

    “No problem can be resolved on a battlefield,” Modi said in Poland on Wednesday before heading to Ukraine.

        • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          It appears that you are unbanned and were able to remain unbanned while disagreeing with the mods, that’s pretty different. What’s your objection, you and them disagree on what is spamming or not?

          • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
            21·
            3 months ago

            I’m quite certain if I ignored the warning, I would earn a ban. The difference isn’t between the World and ML mods, it’s between me trying to play nice with their inconsistent bullshit rules, and the people getting banned from ML not respecting the predictable bullshit rules of that instance.

            It’s obviously more than a disagreement about how to define ‘spamming.’ The MBFC bot is now the most downvoted account in Lemmy history, and it is now more unpopular than the most popular Lemmy account is popular. It appears in every !news, !world, and !politics thread where it is experienced as spam by the vast majority of users.

            But the harm it does is greater than merely taking up pagespace. It distorts the discussion in favor of MBFC’s author’s right-wing views, and gives the World mods the pretense of neutrality when removing left-wing voices from their communities. The MBFC has been widely discredited. For example, Wikipedia’s Reliable Sources Noticeboard rates sources as generally reliable (green), no consensus (yellow), mostly unreliable (red).

            Giving this joke of a resource an institutional place in the flagship communities of the Lemmy’s largest instance are an embarrassment to the entire Threadiverse project. Due to WP’s policy of neutrality, it’s even more damning when you look under the hood and read the specific criticisms that lead its policy of not linking MBFC in its pages. I am being threatened by the mods for reposting excepts from those criticisms in reply to the MBFC bot spam.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      201·
      3 months ago

      yeah just block worldnews on the ml instance, they did you a favor by banning you. They’re very transparently operating as a tankie Russian propaganda arm and you’re wasting your time even interacting with them.

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, it’s not like Modi benefits from any, relatively recent, past history of violence, used to resolve a problem with another country that invaded them, and took their territory. I can’t help but think I am forgetting about something though.