India, Aug. 16 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday thanked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his wishes on the occasion of India's Independence Day.

In his message to Zelensky, PM Modi also expressed an earnest wish for the people of Ukraine and Kyiv's war with Russia.

"Thank you President Zelenskyy for your warm greetings. I deeply value the joint commitment to forging even closer ties between India and Ukraine. We earnestly wish our friends in Ukraine a future marked by peace, progress and prosperity," Modi wrote in a post on X.

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