Russia has endorsed US President Donald Trump’s claim that he mediated between India and Pakistan in order to make the rival neighbours cease hostilities and come to a ceasefire!

Yury Ushakov, aide to the Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the India-Pakistan conflict was resolved with ‘personal’ involvement of US President Donald Trump, as was discussed in a telephonic conversation between Trump and Putin.

“Middle East was discussed, as well as the armed conflict between India and Pakistan, which has been halted with the personal involvement of President Trump,” the senior Russian official said on Thursday.

Ushakov made the statement during a press briefing after the conversation between the two leaders on Wednesday, which lasted for over an hour. While the phone call between Putin and Trump mainly focused on Russia’s war with Ukraine, other geopolitical developments such as India-Pakistan were also discussed between the two global leaders, Ushakov stated.

This is the first time that Russia has spoken about Trump’s role in mediating ceasefire between India and Pakistan. The US president has repeatedly claimed that he helped settle the tensions between India and Pakistan – an assertion that India has pushed back against.

What Shashi Tharoor said in the US about Trump’s mediation claim?

All-Party Delegation to the United States Leader and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that during the delegation’s meeting with US Vice President JD Vance, a clarification was issued about US President Donald Trump’s claim of mediating between India-Pakistan’s military conflict.

“The meeting with Vice President Vance was outstanding. I think we made our position amply clear on this question of mediation, and Vice President Vance fully understood our points. The main point is that mediation implies equivalence between two parties, and there can be no equivalence between terrorists and their victims, between those who are offering safe havens to terrorists and, on the other one on our hand, multi-party democracy. On the one hand, the place from which attacks are coming, another country which is in the process of defending itself, exercising its right to survive, there can be no equivalence,” Tharoor told ANI.

“And therefore I think that we suggested that that would not be an appropriate way of looking at it, and the message has been very clearly understood by the Vice President and certainly at other levels of the system, I think the message has been clearly understood,” he added.

Donald Trump’s ceasefire claim

US President Donald Trump on May 10 claimed credit for mediating between India and Pakistan. He later asserted that his administration’s trade negotiations potentially averted a nuclear war between the two neighbouring countries.

India’s stand on Trump’s ceasefire claim

India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar firmly rejected US President Donald Trump’s claims of brokering peace between India and Pakistan, asserting that the recent cessation of hostilities was achieved through direct communication between the two nations.

“Yes, we have a mechanism to talk to each other as a hotline. So, on the 10th of May, it was the Pakistani army which sent a message that they were ready to stop firing, and we responded accordingly,” Jaishankar said in an interview.