Modi and Putin aim for ‘stronger ties’ during talks in Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met Vladimir Putin in Moscow, seeking to deepen the relationship between the two nuclear powers at a time when Nato leaders gathered in Washington and a Russian missile hit a children’s hospital in Ukraine.

“Our relationship is one of a particularly privileged strategic partnership,” the Russian president told Mr Modi, who made his first trip to Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Kremlin’s forces in 2022.