India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, deepening ties between the two nations as Western leaders gathered at a NATO summit in Washington and Russia stepped up attacks in Ukraine with deadly missile strikes.
Putin hosts India’s prime minister to deepen ties as NATO leaders gather in Washington
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, deepening ties between the two nations as Western leaders gathered at a NATO summit in Washington and Russia stepped up attacks in Ukraine with deadly missile strikes.
While leaders - including President Joe Biden and Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer - prepared to mark 75 years of the world's biggest security organization, and reassure Ukraine of NATO’s support, Putin and Modi were pictured viewing an exhibition of nuclear technology in space.
Modi earlier Tuesday lay a wreath at a war memorial near the Kremlin during his first visit to Russia since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He also met Putin Monday at the start of his two-day trip, shortly after Russian missiles slammed across Ukraine, severely damaging the largest children's hospital in Kyiv and killing at least 42 people across the country, officials said.
While Modi's trip received wall-to-wall coverage in Russia, coverage of Russia's deadly attack on Ukraine has been muted.