The strategy is probably to increase pressure on India to choose one of the two sides. What the Zelensky administration is saying is, It’s just his opinion, It is difficult to even understand this.
It is worth considering whether Ukraine is expressing faith in India or increasing pressure. What it expects from India was also expressed by President Volodymyr Zelensky when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kiev last month. Now Ukraine’s ambassador to New Delhi Oleksandr Polishchuk has made it public what Zelensky told Modi. In an interview to an English newspaper, he said that the Zelensky administration wants India to sign the resolution passed at the conference on the Ukraine war held in Switzerland in June. India participated at the Swiss conference at the official level. But it refused to sign the resolution passed there. It was told that since Russia was not invited to that conference, it did not sign the resolution. However, it was also discussed in media reports that the resolution was so anti-Russia that India did not consider it appropriate to associate itself with it. In such a situation, it is unlikely that India will give its consent to it after three months.
Polishchuk discussed India’s possible role as a mediator. However, the reality is that if India agrees to that proposal, then the so-called influence of India on Russia will disappear. It is not that Zelensky is not aware of this. Despite this, his strategy is probably to increase pressure on India to choose one of the two sides. It is also difficult to understand that what the Zelensky administration is saying is only its opinion. Therefore, the question becomes relevant whether the Western countries are sending a message to India through Zelensky that the era of being on both sides has now reached its limit? Therefore, in this context, it would also be appropriate to remember that in July, when Modi went to Moscow and hugged Russian President Vladimir Putin, America had reacted very sharply to it.