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According to Reuters on August 25, Ukrainian President Zelensky said on the same day that he believed India could host the second Ukrainian Peace Summit, but Ukraine had a prerequisite: the host country must sign a joint statement of the summit.

According to a previous report by the Ukrainian New Voice website, after Switzerland hosted the first Ukrainian Peace Summit in June, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in explaining the country's visa refusal that India believed the joint statement could not bring peace.

According to Reuters, a video posted on social media on August 25 showed that Zelensky said in an interview with Indian reporters that Ukraine is negotiating with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland to hold a second Ukrainian peace summit. He also revealed that he had told Indian Prime Minister Modi that he would support India's bid to host the summit because Ukraine hopes that the host country will come from the "global south".

When talking about the conditions put forward by Ukraine, Zelensky said: "But I want to say frankly that this applies not only to India, but also to any country that is positive about hosting the second summit. We will not be able to hold a peace summit in a country that has not signed the joint statement of the peace summit." He also claimed that this was not Ukraine exerting pressure.

The Ukrainian president added that he discussed the joint statement of the summit and all the points of the last peace summit during his meeting with Modi on the 23rd.

According to a previous report by the British Daily Telegraph, at the two-day Ukrainian peace summit held in Switzerland in June this year, more than a dozen of the 92 participating countries did not sign the joint statement that Zelensky hoped would be a catalyst for peace. India, Brazil, South Africa, as well as energy giants Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent low-level delegations to the meeting and refused to sign the joint statement.

According to the Ukrainian New Voice website, after refusing to sign the joint statement, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that India does not believe that the joint statement of the Ukrainian Peace Summit will bring a "mutually acceptable" solution to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, so it cannot bring peace to Ukraine. "We believe that only a solution acceptable to both sides can bring lasting peace. In line with this principle, we have decided to avoid any association with this joint statement or any other document produced by this summit." The statement reads.