New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday and urged him to pursue the path of dialogue and diplomacy.

Modi in his phone conversation said that it was the only way forward to resolve the Ukraine crisis. Modi and Putin discussed a whole range of bilateral issues.  According to Kremlin statement, while expressing satisfaction with the high level of bilateral cooperation that has been developing on the basis of the Russian-Indian privileged strategic partnership, the two leaders discussed in detail the prospects for practical cooperation in mutual investment, energy, agriculture, transport and logistics. This is the fifth telephonic conversation the two leaders had this year.

Today’s era is not of war while urging him to end the aggression in Ukraine so as to keep global supply chains of food, fuel and fertilizers open, Modi said to Putin.