KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has condemned the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The meeting, held in Moscow, coincided with a tragic missile strike in Ukraine that resulted in the deaths of 37 people, including three children, and injuries to 170 others, 13 of whom were children.
In a social media post on ‘X’, Zelenskiy highlighted the devastating impact of the Russian missile strike, which targeted Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, home to young cancer patients.
“It is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world’s largest democracy hug the world’s most bloody criminal in Moscow on such a day,” he wrote on ‘X’.
His remarks came after PM Modi was greeted by Putin with a huge and welcomed him at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence for a ‘private engagement’.
Before Modi’s arrival in Russia, Kremlin had remarked that the West was watching Modi and Putin’s meeting with jealousy.
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