India, Oct. 5 -- Kyiv's endorsement of India's Ukraine peace proposal strengthens New Delhi's credentials as a credible peacemaker and could bolster its standing

All through the Russia-Ukraine war, India has maintained a neutral stance and kept away from entering active mediation, focusing on its oil requirements, which naturally tilt it in favour of Russia and making its neutrality look rather superficial. However, that has changed now with India coming up with a truce plan that Kyiv has praised as 'comprehensive.'

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has now said what New Delhi's diplomats have waited years to hear. Of four proposals to end the conflict, before Kyiv, from India, Turkey, Egypt and the United States, he called India...