US, Ukraine Protest as Modi Hugs Putin; India's Ebbing Public Trust in the Election Process Can and Must Be Reversed
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July 9, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
As hugs go, the timing couldn’t have been worse. Narendra Modi embraced Vladimir Putin in Moscow less than a day after Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian population centres, with a children’s hospital in Kyiv among the civilian structures to be damaged. But the Indian Prime Minister’s meeting with the Russian President also overlaps with the NATO summit in Washington, making for awkward optics all around. Ukraine’s President publicly lit into Modi and the US too made its anger
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