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DAYS AFTER it became clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not going to Russia for the annual summit this year, the two leaders discussed the situation in Ukraine and India-Russia bilateral ties in a telephone conversation on Friday. This is their fifth phone conversation this year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the Indian government’s statement said that Modi reiterated his call for “dialogue and diplomacy as the only way forward”, Kremlin’s statement did not make any mention of this, and instead said that “at the request of Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin gave fundamental assessments of Russia’s line...
