{"id":65475,"date":"2024-07-09T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/09\/modi-putin-summit-bonds-of-friendship-ukraine-tensions"},"modified":"2024-07-09T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:25:08","slug":"modi-and-putin-cement-bonds-of-friendship-despite-ukraine-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65475","title":{"rendered":"Modi and Putin cement \u2018bonds of friendship\u2019 despite Ukraine tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian prime minister travelled to Moscow for two-day summit and \u2018chit-chat\u2019 amid diplomatic complexities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jul\/09\/ukraine-war-live-kyiv-nato-vladimir-putin-voldymyr-zelenskiy-latest-news\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, landed in Moscow on Monday, it was straight into the warm embrace of Vladimir Putin. Modi said the visit \u2013 his first since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine \u2013 was to cement the \u201cbonds of friendship\u201d between the two countries, and later effusively described Russia as India\u2019s \u201call-weather friend and trusted ally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The India-Russia relationship runs deep, dating back to the cold war, and Russia has long been the largest supplier of arms to India. Since he was elected in 2014, Modi has built up a much-publicised rapport with Putin, the two leaders having had more than 20 meetings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/09\/modi-putin-summit-bonds-of-friendship-ukraine-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian prime minister travelled to Moscow for two-day summit and \u2018chit-chat\u2019 amid diplomatic complexitiesRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesAs India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, landed in Moscow on Monday, it was straight into the warm embrace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,419,61,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65476,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475\/revisions\/65476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}