25 August 2024

Modi’s Kyiv Trip Signals a Subtle Shift - Analysis

Sumit Ganguly

In July, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Moscow and greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin with a bear hug. The same day, Russia launched deadly airstrikes across Ukraine, hitting the country’s largest children’s hospital and killing at least 41 people. Although Modi made a veiled reference to the strike and the casualties, his anodyne remark failed to deflect international criticism of his trip and his apparent bonhomie with Putin—especially from the United States.


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