What separates a multipolar world from a bipolar one, observed a Twitter expert, is the India-Russia relationship. In Russia for a bilateral summit with Putin after five years, Modi’s job was never going to be easy. It became particularly fraught as visuals of the Modi-Putin “hug” coincided with an unconscionable missile attack by Russia on a children’s hospital in Ukraine, killing sick and injured children, not to mention destroying essential healthcare facilities for the most vulnerable.
Modi chastised Putin over the attack in televised remarks ahead of their private talks, saying that “when innocent children are killed, when we see innocent children dying, it is heart-wrenching.”
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