Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that India is a great power that determines its own national interests and chooses its partners. Speaking at a press conference at the United Nations, Lavrov called the heavy pressure on New Delhi over energy cooperation with Moscow completely unjustified.
Lavrov said that I think India is a great power that determines its own national interests, determines its own national interests and chooses its partners. We know that India is under heavy pressure in the international arena, absolutely unreasonable pressure. His remarks came in response to a question on Prime Minister Modi's recent Moscow visit and India's opposition to energy cooperation with Russia. This was PM Modi's first visit to Russia since the Ukraine conflict began. Western countries were not happy with PM Modi's visit to Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized it and said in a post on Twitter that a Russian missile had attacked Ukraine's largest children's hospital, targeting young cancer patients. Many people were buried under the rubble.
Zelensky said about the Modi-Putin meeting, *To see the leader of the world's largest democracy embracing the world's bloodiest criminal on such a day in Moscow is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts.